▪ I. † ˈrosen, a. Obs.
Also 5 rosene, rosyne.
[f. rose n. + -en4.]
1. Formed or consisting of roses; pertaining to roses; distilled from roses.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 302 Ᵹenim þysse ylcan wyrte seaw aglaofotis mid rosenan ele ᵹemencᵹed. ? a 1366 Chaucer Rom. Rose 845 His leef a rosen chapelet Had maad. c 1374 ― Boeth. ii. metr. iii. (1868) 39 Whan þe wode wexeþ redy of rosene floures. 1446 Lydg. Nightingale Poems (1900) 20 Gadre on an hepe these rosen-floures fyve. |
2. Rose-coloured, rosy, roseate.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 334 Þa betwux hancrede læᵹ se halᵹa wer ᵹeedcucod, mid rose[n]um hiwe ofergoten. a 1100 Anglo-Saxon Hymn. (Surtees) 105 Mid ænlicum leohte & wlite rosenum. a 1100 Gloss. in Haupt Zeitschrift IX. 483 In rosatum, on rosenne [altered to ᵹerosedne]. c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. ii. metr. iii. (1868) 39 Whan phebus..bygynneþ to spreden his clerenesse with rosene chariettes. Ibid. iii. metr. i. 64 Þe day..lediþ þe rosene horse of þe sonne. c 1402 Lydg. Compl. Bl. Knt. 656 Er the sonne to-morwe be risen newe, And er he have ayein his rosen hewe. 1412–20 ― Troy-bk. ii. 3923 Allas! chaunged is hir rosen hewe! |
▪ II. rosen
obs. form of rosin.