▪ I. rose, n.1 and a.1
(rəʊz)
Forms: 1– rose, 5 roos, 5–6 roose, ross, 5, 7 rosse, 6 ros, roase; Sc. 5 roise, 5–6 rois, roys(e; 9 dial. rooas(e, rwose.
[OE. rose or róse, ad. L. rosa (It., Sp., Pg. rosa, F. rose); in ME. prob. reinforced from French. Cf. MDu. rose (Du. roos, Fris. roas), LG. rose, OHG. rôsa (G. rose), ON. rósa (MSw. rosa, Da. rose; Icel. rós, Sw. ros). L. rosa is prob. an adoption of Gr. ῥοδέα through intermediate Greek and Italian dialects (Brugmann, I. 684).]
A. n. I. The flower or plant.
1. a. A well-known beautiful and fragrant flower which grows upon a shrub of the genus Rosa, usu. of a red, white, or yellow colour, and widely cultivated throughout the world.
The petals of the rose have been used for various economical purposes: cf. attar, otto1, rose-cake, rose-vinegar, rose-water, etc.
| c 888 K. ælfred Boeth. ix, Se stearca wind..toweorpð..þære rosan wlite. a 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 444 Rosena blostman & lilian hi ymtrymedon. c 1055 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia VIII. 299 Þær we onfengon þære rosena swæc. a 1225 Ancr. R. 276 And breres bereð rosen, & berien, & blostmen? 13.. Coer de L. 3736 Ladyes strowe here boures With rede roses, and lylye flowres. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 173 As the Netle..The freisshe rede Roses brenneth And makth hem fade. c 1450 Godstow Reg. 558 Yeldyng therof yerely to hym..j. Rose atte fest of seynt Iohn Baptist. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 234 So longe it is called the budde of a rose, as it is not a perfyte rose. 1595 Barnfield Cynthia (1841) 10 Euer as she went she strew'd the place, Red-roses mixt with Daffodillies fine. 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 148 In the Red Roses, earthy parts are predominant. 1665 Boyle Occas. Refl. (1848) 360 Roses..do not onely keep their Colour longer than Tulips, but when that decays, retain a perfum'd Odour. 1742 Gray Propertius ii. 10 There bloom the vernal rose's earliest pride. 1781 Cowper Retirem. 724 Flow'rs by that name promiscuously we call, But one, the rose, the regent of them all. 1809 Byron Bards & Rev. 76 As soon Seek roses in December—ice in June. 1856 Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. xiv. §25 A rose is rounded by its own soft ways of growth. 1882 Garden 11 Feb. 93/1 A bunch of green Roses gathered from a bush in the open air. |
b. oil of roses, rose-oil (see sense 19 d).
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 13 Aboute þe wounde leie a medicyn defensif,..oile of rosis, & a litil vynegre. 1541 Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. O j b, Anoynte it with oyle of Roses or other oyntement to mytygate the smert. 1563 T. Hill Art Gardening (1593) 88 The best making of the oile of Roses is on this wise, first clip off the rose leaues from the whites, and boiling the same in oyle Oliue, then sun the same in a glasse for fiftie daies. c 1623 Lodge Poore Mans Talent (Hunterian Cl.) 43 Mintts bruised and mixed wyth oyle of Roses, and applied to the stomacke, is good against..vomytt. 1662 [see oil n.1 B. 2]. 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Wound, Take..Pitch or Gum, Oil of Roses [etc.]. 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Rose, How to gain a larger quantity of the essential oil of roses. 1868 Watts Dict. Chem. V. 115 Oil of roses is often adulterated with oil of geranium. |
c. cakes,
honey,
sugar,
syrup,
water of roses (
cf. 19 d, and
rose-cake, etc.).
| c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 27 Take Quynces,..caste hem on a potte, & caste þer-to water of Rosys. 1552 [see sense 19 d]. 1671 Phillips, Rhodomel,..Honey of Roses. 1676 J. Cooke Marrow Chirurg. (ed. 3) 785 Manna dissolv'd in Syrup of Roses. 1680 Otway Caius Marius v. ii, Remnants of Pack-thread, and old Cakes of Roses. 1686 W. Denton Let. in M. M. Verney Mem. (1899) IV. ix. 359, I could wish you would take sugar of roses with yr. asses' milke. 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Appetite, With a little Syrup of Roses make a small Lump of it. 1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Rose, Sugar of Roses is made of Red-Rose Leaves, dried in an Oven. 1922 [see ringocandy]. |
d. Used without article.
| c 1440 tr. Pallad. on Husb. vi. 211 In euery pound of oil an vnce of rose Ypurged putte. Ibid. 216 In Iuce of rose. 1483 Cath. Angl. 312/1 Oyle of Rose, rodolium. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 1149 Three ounces of essence of rose. 1871 Farrar Witn. Hist. ii. 63 The rocks should flow with honey, and the briars bloom with rose. |
2. a. A rose-plant, rose-bush, or rose-tree.
In early
quots. not clearly distinguishable from sense 1.
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 108 Þis smelle is Crist, clepid plantinge of rose in Jerico. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 67 Roses..are diverslie planted. 1597 Gerarde Herbal 1080 We haue in our London gardens one of the red Roses, whose flowers are..of great estimation. 1664 Evelyn Kalend. Hort. 69 In mid June Inoculate Jasmine, Roses, and some other rare shrubs. 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Rose-tree, The Rose deserves as much care as any Shrub that grows in a Garden. 1731 Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Rosa, The next Sort of Rose which flowers in the open Air, is the Cinnamon. 1822 Loudon Encycl. Gard. (1824) 892 Roses require some attention to pruning. 1845 Beck's Florist 137 The first prize for twenty Roses in pots. 1882 Garden 4 Mar. 142/2, I have a green Rose, evidently a climber. |
b. Austr. A name given to the ‘scrub-vine’ (
Bauera rubioides), and to a shrub (
Boronia serrulata) of the order
Rutaceæ.
| 1874 Treas. Bot. Suppl. s.v., Rose, Australian, Boronia serrulata. Ibid., Rose, River (Tasm.), Bauera rubioides. 1891 W. Tilley Wild West Tasmania 7 (Morris), The..troublesome Bauera shrub; whose gnarled branches have earned for it the..expressive name of ‘tangle-foot’ or ‘leg ropes’. [It] has been named by Spicer the ‘Native Rose’. |
3. a. With defining term prefixed (denoting either one of the numerous varieties of the common rose, or some other plant), as
Alpine,
apple,
Ayrshire,
Banksian, etc.
The more important of these, as
blush-,
brier-,
cabbage-,
canker-,
China-,
Christmas-rose, etc., are treated under the first element or as main words. Only a few of the many others in use are illustrated here.
| 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 495/2 The..*Alpine inermous rose, grows five or six feet high. |
| 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Rose-tree, There are two other sorts of Striped Roses,..one of which is call'd the York and Lancaster Rose, and the other, the *Apple Rose. |
| 1837 Rivers Rose Amateur's G. 42 The *Ayrshire Rose..is merely a seedling hybrid from our Rosa arvensis. |
| Ibid. 52 The true *Banksian Roses are not adapted for pillar roses..: they require a wall. 1864 Hibberd Rose Bk. 8 R. Banksiæ is the type of a restricted..section of climbing roses, natives of China; known in gardens as Banksian roses. |
| 1837 Rivers Rose Amateur's G. 20 Hybrid China roses..owe their origin to the China, Tea-scented Noisette and *Bourbon roses. |
| Ibid. 50 The *Boursault Rose (Rosa Alpina)... This is a most distinct group of roses, with long, reddish flexible shoots. |
| 1786 Abercrombie Gard. Assist., Arr. 33/1 Indian or *Chinese rose. 1837 Rivers Rose Amateur's G. 68 The common Chinese Rose, (Rosa indica), and the crimson Chinese Rose, or Rosa semperflorens. |
| 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Rose-tree, The best Season in England to plant *Dutch Roses. |
| 1786 Abercrombie Gard. Assist., Arr. 33/2 *Eglantine rose, or sweet briar. |
| 1647 Hexham 1, An *Eglantire Rose. |
| 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 165 The *Ever-green Rose, that grows like wild Eglantine. 1844 Kitto Phys. Hist. Palestine vii. 284 The principal species in that country are..the hundred-leaved (or damask) rose, the yellow rose, and the evergreen rose. |
| 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Rose-tree, The *hundred-leav'd Rose, without smell. 1864 Hibberd Rose Bk. 6 R. Damascena, R. Gallica, and R. centifolia, constitute together the section of Centifolium, or hundred-leaved roses. |
| 1837 Rivers Rose Amateur's G. 87 The single *Macartney Rose was brought from China, in 1795, by Lord Macartney. |
| 1786 Abercrombie Gard. Assist., Arr. 32/2 *Marbled rose. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 495/1 Marbled rose.., having..large, double, finely-marbled, red flowers. |
| 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) VIII. 499/1 The seeds having been carried by the French to their West India settlements, it hath thence obtained the name of *Martinico-rose. 1807 Miller's Gard. Dict. s.v. Rosa, Double China Rose, commonly called in the West Indies, Martinico Rose. |
| 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Rose-tree, The *Yellow Rose has broad Leaves of a yellow Lemon Colour, and has no smell. |
b. With defining term (genitive phrase) added:
rose of the Alps, one of a small species of shrubs,
Rhododendron hirsutum or
R. ferrugineum, natives of the Alps; Alpine rose.
rose of Cayenne: (see
quot. 1874).
rose of heaven, a beautiful garden-flower,
Lychnis or
Viscaria Cœli-rosa.
rose of Jerusalem, a species of Amomum (see
quot. 1598).
rose of May, the common white narcissus; poets' narcissus (
N. poeticus).
rose of the mount, a variety of peony.
rose of the prime, the primrose.
rose of Sienna, Indian mallow.
rose of the sun = rosa solis 1.
rose of the Virgin, the rose of Jericho.
rose of the world, (
a) a variety of the common rose; (
b) a handsome rose-coloured flower,
Camellia japonica Rosa-mundi. Also
rose of Jericho,
rose of Sharon.
| 1598 Florio, Amomo, a sweete-smelling shrub in Armenia with leaues like the vine, called our Ladies Rose, or the Rose of Ierusalem, or Garden Pepper. 1611 Cotgr., Rose de nostre Dame, Rose of the mount, Knights Bloome, Peonie, Pionie. 1628 Wither Brit. Rememb. 137 Here plucks the Cowslips, Roses of the Prime, There Lavander, sweet Marjoram and Thyme. a 1653 Gouge Comm. Hebr. ix. 121 There is a rose of Ierusalem, which is milk white, and called..Amomum. 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Rose (Wild), The Indian and Japan Mallows;..it's more known by the Name of the Rose of Sienna. 1731 Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Rosa, The Rose of the World, or Rosa Mundi. 1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gard. Dict. 790/1 Rose of Heaven, Lychnis Coeli-Rosa. Ibid., Rose of the World. 1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 337/1 Numerous superstitions are connected with this plant, which is called Rosa Mariæ, or Rose of the Virgin. 1866 Treas. Bot. 991/1 Rose of the Alps. Ibid., Rose of May. 1874 ― Suppl. s.v., Rose of Cayenne, Licaria guianensis; or, according to some authorities, Dicypellium caryophyllatum. 1910 Kipling Rewards & Fairies 275 Excellent herbs had our fathers of old—..Cowslip, Melilot, Rose of the Sun. |
II. In allusive, emblematic, or figurative uses.
4. a. The flower as distinguished by its surpassing beauty, fragrance, or rich red colour.
| 971 Blickl. Hom. 7 Seo readnes þære rosan lixeþ on þe. a 1225 Leg. Kath. 1423 Se rudie & se reade ilitet eauereuch leor as lilie ileid to rose. a 1300 Cursor M. 9927 It castes lem ouer al sa bright..Als ros þat es als in springing. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 613 Cleopatra, Sche was fayr as is the Rose in may. c 1420 Anturs of Arth. 161, I was reddere in rode þan rose in þe rayne. c 1470 Golagros & Gaw. 854 The blude..As roise ragit on rise, Our ran thair riche vedis. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 28 Your Colour (I warrant you) is as red as any Rose. a 1732 Gay New Song on New Similies 55 Sweet as a rose her breath and lips. 1798 Coleridge Anc. Mar. i. ix, Red as a rose is she. 1856 Emerson Eng. Traits, Race, The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome. |
b. With reference to the prickles (commonly called
thorns) of the bush on which the flower grows. Also
fig.| a 900 O.E. Martyrol. 2 Sept., He wæs cristen læce, ond he eardode in hæðenra midlene swa swa rose sio wyrt bið on þorna midlynæ. a 1250 Owl & Night. 444 Þe rose also myd hire rude Þat cumeþ of þe þorne wode. c 1300 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6794 As þe rose springþ of þe brer þat ssarp & kene is. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 62 That was a Rose is thanne a thorn. 1430–40 Lydg. Bochas Prol. ix, There is no rose..in garden, but there be sum thorne. 1535 Coverdale Song Sol. ii. 1 As the rose amonge the thornes, so is my loue amonge the daughters. a 1586 Montgomerie Misc. Poems xl. 46 Sen peircing pyks ar kyndlie with the rose. 1611 Cotgr. s.v., No Rose without a prickle. 1667 Milton P.L. iv. 256 Flours of all hue, and without Thorn the Rose. 1819 Scott Ivanhoe xviii, To gather life's roses, unscathed by the briar. 1882 C. Rossetti Poems (1904) 174/1 Herself a rose,..She bore the Rose and felt the thorn. |
c. In miscellaneous uses.
| 1375 Barbour Bruce xi. 546 The king had said..That ane rose of his chaplet Wes faldyn. 1423 Jas. I Kingis Q. 186, I pray for all the hertis dull, That..has no curage at the rose to pull. 1546 Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 21, I toke hir for a rose, but she breedth a burre. 1560 Rolland Crt. Venus i. 587 Of all vertewis, lufe is the crop and rois. 1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus (1876) 24 None must pluck the Redrose of her prime, But he that gaynes her with a golden voyce. 1842 Tennyson Vision of Sin iii. 5, I saw that every morning..God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. 1877 ― Harold iii. i, The Saints are virgins; They love the white rose of virginity. |
d. bed of roses: (
cf. bed n. 6 b).
| [a 1593 Marlowe Pass. Shepherd iii, There will I make thee a bed of Roses. 1648 Herrick Hesp., Upon Eliz. Herrick, In thy bed of Roses, then,..Sleep, while we hide thee from the light. 1665 Dryden Ind. Emp. v. ii, Think'st thou I lie on beds of roses here.] |
| 1806 Cobbett's Parl. Deb. VII. 1243 So that he..does not imagine the directors lay on a ‘bed of roses’. 1895 Dict. Nat. Biogr. XLIV. 396/2 These border commands were no beds of roses. |
e. to pluck a rose: see
pluck v. 9.
f. not to be the rose but to be near it (and variants),
phr. expressing a person's proximity to some admired person, ideal, or the like.
| [1808 F. Gladwin tr. Sâdy's Gûlistân p. x, I was a worthless piece of clay, but having for a season associated with the rose, the virtue of my companion was communicated to me.] 1818 C. R. Maturin Women I. x. 191 ‘I am not the rose,’ said he, ‘but I have been near the rose.’ 1825 H. Wilson Memoirs (ed. 2) I. 234, I considered her with respect and admiration, unmixed with jealousy. This was not the rose; but she had dwelled with it. 1848 Thackeray Pendennis (1849) I. ii. 11 If they were not the roses, they lived near the roses, as it were, and had a good deal of the odour of genteel life. 1866 Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. II. xviii. 181 The great reason why she did not hear of the gossip against Molly as early as anyone, was that, although she was not the rose, she lived near the rose. 1872 S. R. Hole Six of Spades xii. 106 It seems to say, with the perfumed earth in the Persian fable, ‘I am not the rose; but cherish me, for we have dwelt together.’ 1899 H. James Awkward Age ii. viii. 84 Mrs. Grendon, though not perhaps herself quite the rose, is decidedly, in these days, too near it. 1907 E. Gosse Father & Son iv. 91, I was not permitted to go forth and trade with this old person, but sometimes our servant-maid did, thereby making me feel that if I did not hold the rose of merchandise, I was very near it. 1917 ‘O. Douglas’ Setons xiii. 151 It was not the rose but it was someone who at times was near the rose—and he went and sat down beside Jessie. 1979 Country Life 7 June 1863/4 Laura moves to Candleford Green, which, if not the rose of Candleford itself, is still nearer the rose than was Lark Rise. |
g. pl., expressing favourable circumstances, ease, success, etc., in various phrases, as
roses, (roses,) all the way,
not all roses,
everything's roses,
come up roses (
U.S.).
| [1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 285 The passage from earth to heauen is not strowed with roses.] 1855 Browning Patriot in Men & Women I. 191 It was roses, roses, all the way. 1899 W. E. Norris G. Ingilby vi, ‘[Entertaining] is not all roses, you see’, the girl remarked. 1930 A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xiii. 173 The tunnel was too much for you, eh? Well, I told you it weren't all roses on the ‘Cut’. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock vii. i. 283 ‘Sometimes he's bad to me. Oh, I can tell you,’ she urged, ‘it's not all roses.’ 1948 Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite vi. 84, I should have thought you would be so glad to get back from a ghastly country like Brazil that life would have been roses, roses all the way. 1969 Times 12 Dec. 24 If some disaster hit us..we would have to soldier on, pretending that everything in the column was coming up roses. 1971 ‘E. Lathen’ Longer the Thread (1972) vi. 60 ‘We don't have to worry about where the next thunderbolt will hit.’ ‘So everything's roses,’ Eric Marten growled derisively. 1974 New Yorker 1 Apr. 95/2 (Advt.), There is a splendid hotel on a marvelous corner of Park Avenue where everything's coming up roses and crystal and gilt. 1976 C. Weston Rouse Demon (1977) xviii. 89 This kid's from a good solid home. Parents are okay. Everything's roses. 1977 Time 7 Feb. 59/1 Aired over eight consecutive nights, Roots came up roses for ABC. 1977 World of Cricket Monthly June 42/2 Although Australia lost the Ashes, it was roses, roses, all the way for him. |
h. the last rose (with allusion to
quot. 1820), the last flowering
of an era, an art form, or the like, before its end.
| [1820 T. Moore Irish Melodies 119 'Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone.] 1965 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times IV. 147 The summer of 1912 blows in my memory like a flower of time that was; it is for me the last rose of a London that vanished during the First World War. 1978 Times 5 Aug. 14/6 The ‘Pervigilium Veneris’ is one of the most haunting incantations of love ever written. This last rose of pagan poetry is also appropriately mysterious. 1981 Sunday Tel. 14 June 12/8 This book is a literary curiosity. It is the last rose of a pre-Vatican II summer. |
i. to come out smelling of roses (and variants): to emerge with an (apparently) unblemished record.
| 1968 ‘E. Lathen’ Come to Dust xvii. 167 No matter how you sliced it, the old grads.. were not going to come out of this smelling like roses. 1976 J. Porter Dover & Claret Tappers xii. 146, I intend to emerge from this business smelling of roses. If, to achieve this, I have to wash my hands in your blood, that's perfectly OK by me. |
j. roses round the door,
phr. used to denote marital (or rural) domestic happiness.
| 1934 L. Golding Five Silver Daughters xiii. 315 Talking about my mother and her pearls—it all sort of reminded me of the roses round the door. 1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn iv. 38 ‘Roses round the door and all that’, as Norman used to say when Letty's retirement plans were mentioned. |
5. transf. A peerless or matchless person; a paragon;
esp. a woman of great beauty, excellence, or virtue. Also
const. of.
Frequently used,
esp. in early examples, to designate the Virgin Mary.
English rose: see
English a. 2 e.
| a 1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS. xxviii. 41 Heil Rose hiȝest of hyde and hewe. 1412 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 2974, I ȝow beseche, O goodly fresche rose, Myn emprise to bringen to an ende. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6440 Of Religioun he was þe rose. 1508 Dunbar Gold. Targe 253 O reuerend Chaucere, rose of rethoris all. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. iii. 175 To put downe Richard, that sweet louely Rose, And plant this Thorne. 1602 ― Ham. iv. v. 157 Oh Rose of May, Deere Maid, kinde Sister, sweet Ophelia. 1653 H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxiii. 86 The same Priest..began to sing aloud these words ‘Virgin, you are a Rose’. 1683 Whip for Devil 118 By all the most blessed Names of the Virgin.., beautiful Soul, blessed Rose. 1720 T. M. tr. Horstius' Parad. Soul (1771) 453 Mystical Rose, Pray for us. 1731–8 Swift Pol. Conv. i, Miss. Well; here's a Rose between two Nettles. Neverout. No, Madam;..here's a Nettle between two Roses. 1819 Scott Ivanhoe xiv, A Saxon heiress of large possessions.., a rose of loveliness, and a jewel of wealth. 1872 in Mrs. Somerville Personal Recoll. iv. (1874) 61 They called her the ‘Rose of Jedwood’. 1882 [see 4 b]. |
6. Eng. Hist. The flower, white or red, which was respectively the badge, emblem, or symbol of the rival Houses of York and Lancaster. Also
transf., the parties thus symbolized.
Wars of the Roses, the civil wars in the fifteenth century between the Yorkists and Lancastrians.
For the reputed adoption of the emblem, see
Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, ii. iv. 27 ff.
| 1509 Hawes Past. Pleas. (Percy Soc.) 1 Grace shal him [Prince Henry] well enclose, Whiche by true right sprange of the reed rose. a 1529 Skelton Sp. Parrot 37 Cryst saue Kyng Henry the viii., our royall kyng, The red rose in honour to florysh and spryng! 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. v. 64 Whose marriages conioyn'd the White-rose and the Red. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. v. 378 The Red rose might become White, by losing so much bloud, and the White rose Red by shedding it. 1738 De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 2) III. 120 It proved a lucky Day to the White Rose of York and made the Red Rose of Lancaster look pale and wan. 1829 Scott Anne of G. vii, The civil discords so dreadfully prosecuted in the wars of the White and Red Roses. 1835 M. Graham Little Arthur's Hist. Eng. II. xxxii. 3 For more than thirty years afterwards, the civil wars in England were called the wars of the Roses. 1841 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical (ed. 2) II. xxvi. 132, I passed the Obelisk at Barnet, where the famous battle was fought in the wars of the roses. 1878 Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xviii. 274 Henry VII, combining the interests of the rival roses. 1879 Trollope Eye for an Eye I. ii. 30 They have held the same property since the wars of the roses. 1939 W. S. Maugham in Hearst's Internat. Feb. 30/2 The barony held by the first earl dated from the Wars of the Roses. 1966 A. L. Rowse (title) Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses. |
b. As the emblem of England.
Cf. 12 c.
| 1629 B. Jonson Underwoods, To E. Filmer, Who did this Knot compose Again hath brought the Lily to the Rose. 1825 A. Cunningham German Lairdie ii, He's pu'd the rose o' the English loons,..But our thistle top will jag his thumbs. |
7. a. under the rose, privately, in secret, in strict confidence;
sub rosa. Also
transf. (
quot. 1876).
So early
mod.Du. onder de roose (Kilian),
MLG. under der rosen, G.
unter der rose: there is reason to believe that the phrase originated in Germany.
| 1546 State Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 200 The sayde questyons were asked with lysence, and that yt shulde remayn under the rosse, that is to say, to remayn under the bourde, and no more to be rehersyd. 1622 Fletcher Beggars' Bush ii. iii, If this make us speak Bold words, anon, 'tis all under the Rose Forgotten. 1644 Howell Parables Times 147 Being all under the Rose they had privilege to speak all things with freedom. 1687 T. Brown in Dk. Buckingham's Wks. (1705) II. 131 Where under the Pulpit, as under the Rose, we may say what we please against either State or Church. 1708 Brit. Apollo No. 112. 3/1 But when we with caution a secret Disclose, We cry Be it spoken (Sir) under the Rose. 1775 J. Adams in Fam. Lett. (1876) 61 In Congress we are bound to secrecy. But, under the rose, I believe that ten thousand men will be maintained in the Massachusetts. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xxvi, Why, ye are to understand,..I speak amang friends, and under the rose. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxviii, This fine fellow, whom he believed to be his cousin under the rose. |
b. In allusions to the above phrase.
| 1730 Fielding Rape upon Rape Wks. 1775 II. 51 The rose is ever understood over the drinking-room, and a glass is the surest turnkey to the lips. 1890 Ch. Times 21 Feb., If these persons are well informed (and some of them are very near the rose) the prospect of legislation is not too brilliant. |
III. As a designation of colour.
8. A delicate red or light crimson colour.
| 1530 Palsgr. 264/1 Rose, colour. 1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Colour, The same blue, with red half in grain, makes amaranth, tan-colour, and dry rose. 1761 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 234 Did they, no matter how, disturb their cloaths; Or, over lilied, add a little rose! 1834–6 in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 463/1 Several different shades of enamel colours, rose, red, and brown. 1864 Lowell Fireside Trav. 286 One great mountain that soaked up all the rose of sunset. 1882 Garden 23 Dec. 548/1 The flowers..bright magenta shaded with warm rose. |
9. Chiefly
pl. The fresh pink or ruddy hue of the complexion,
esp. in young women.
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 129 How now my loue? Why is your cheek so pale? How chance the Roses there do fade so fast? 1607 Earl Stirling J. Cæsar iii. ii, I see the Roses fading in thy face. 1622–1713 [see lily 3]. 1775 Sheridan Duenna ii. i, Then the roses on those cheeks are shaded with a sort of velvet down, that gives a delicacy to the glow of health. 1812 Crabbe Tales xvi. 266 In Anna's cheek revived the faded rose. 1877 Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. vi. 172 The fresh country ladies had to be warned against spoiling their natural roses with paint. |
10. the rose, a popular term for a local inflammatory cutaneous disease, frequently accompanied by fever, in which the skin assumes a deep red colour; erysipelas;
St. Anthony's fire.
Perhaps originally from Dutch or German.
| 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 286/1 If then anye man get the Rose or anye other inflammation. 1658 A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. ii. xxi. 134 There are other humours which fall into the Knee, even as the Rose or Anthonies Fire useth to fall. 1788 Med. Comm. II. 182 The Rose, or Erysipelas of the extremities, is commonly preceded by lowness. 1833 Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 105/2 Erysipelas..is known in popular language by the name of the Rose, from the colour of the skin. 1900 Hutchinson's Arch. Surg. XI. 209 Local cyanosis, although less common than local roses, is often quite as definitely in association with the too liberal use of alcoholic beverages. |
| transf. 1799 W. Butter (title), On the Venereal Rose. |
11. † a. A rose-coloured wine.
Obs.—1| c 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 115 Þerfore a pipe of coloure de rose þou kepe..; the reboyle to Rakke to þe lies of þe rose, þat shalle be his amendynge. |
b. A rose-coloured or reddish variety of apple, pear, potato, etc.
| 1676 Worlidge Cyder (1691) 179 Alexandrian Roses I have not heard of. 1822 Loudon Encycl. Gard. §1434 Dessert Pears... Rose, Thorny Rose. 1860 R. Hogg Fruit Manual 214 (Pears) Summer Rose (Epine Rose; Ognonet; Rose; Thorny Rose).—Fruit medium sized, oblate. 1888 Daily News 10 Sept. 2/7 Potatoes... Early Roses are the freest from blight. |
IV. A figure or representation of the flower.
12. a. Her. A conventional design or figure representing this flower,
usu. consisting of five lobes or petals.
| 13.. Sir Beues 3786 Here armes were riale of siȝt..; Þe chaumpe of gold ful faire tolede, Portraid al wiþ rosen rede. 1459 Paston Lett. I. 469 My maister helmet in the myddes, with rede roses of my maisters armes. a 1550 in Baring-Gould & Twigge W. Armory (1898) 6 Boscowne: Ermyn a rose gul[es]. 1562 Legh Armory 170 b, The fielde Geules, a Rose. Or. 1610 J. Guillim Her. iii. ix, A rose gules Barbed and Seeded. 1675 [see chevron n.1 2]. 1708 J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. (1710) 57 The White Rose was the ancient bearing of the House of York, and the Red Rose that of Lancaster. 1722 A. Nisbet Syst. Her. I. 379 Crest, an Hand issuing from a Cloud, and reaching down a Garland of Roses proper. 1864 [see barbed ppl. a.1 3]. 1868 Cussans Her. (1893) 105. |
b. A representation of the flower in needlework or painting. Also printed on fabric, woven in a carpet, etc.
| 1434 E.E. Wills 102 A whit couerkell with roses & flourdeluces. 1466 Records in Archaeologia (1887) L. i. 38 Item j vestment of blewe chamlet, enbraudet w{supt} whyte Roses. 1542 Ibid. 46 Item a vestement blwe Chamlet w{supt} rosis. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 73 b, All the Copes and Vestementes wer..poudered with redde Roses purled with fine golde. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. 290/1 Imported Paris Organdies..with colored roses, buds and leaves. 1955 R. P. Jhabvala To whom she Will xv. 102 She was very fine now in a pink silk kamiz with blue roses on it. 1964 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. 13 The Surgeon's lessons [in putting] were given along the corridor.., the hole being one of the roses in the Brussels carpet. 1972 Country Life 6 Jan. 25/3 Many quilts [were] named after roses..Cactus Rose, Desert Rose, Rose of Sharon, Rambling Rose (whose other name was Old Maid's Ramble). |
c. As an emblem of the houses of York or Lancaster, or of England.
Cf. 6. Also as an emblem of the rival sporting teams of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
| [a 1475 G. Chastellain Chron. Œuvres 1864 IV. 155 Un chevalier..portant le nouvel collier du roy, la rose blanche et le soleil.] 15.. Sir Andrew Barton in Surtees Misc. (1890) 67 When he saw the Lion of England out blaisse, The sterne [read streemers] and the roose about his eye. 1853 Humphreys Coin-coll. Man. II. 463 The twopenny pieces [of Jas. I] have a rose on one side, and a thistle on the other, crowned. 1907 F. Thompson in Athenæum 23 Nov. 654/3 It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk, Though the red roses crest the caps, I know. 1954 A. W. Ledbroke Lancashire County Cricket xxv. 244 The bank holiday Battle of the Roses provides..the nearest approach to the atmosphere of Sydney or Melbourne—when the crowds are orderly. But there is more than tenseness to a match between Lancashire and Yorkshire. |
† 13. A kind of cup or bowl.
Obs. rare.
| 1444 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 112, I wil y{supt} William my sone haue..ij standing cuppis of a sute gilt, ij coveryd pecis callid rosis. 1459 Paston Lett. I. 469 Item, j. paire basyns, with gilt verges, and j. rose, with my maisters helmet enameled and gilt in the myddes. |
14. a. A rose-shaped design of metal or other material; an imitation of a rose in metal-work, etc.
| 1459 Paston Lett. I. 469 Item, j. stondynge cuppe gilt, with j. kever, with j. rose in the toppe, weiyng xl unces. 1488 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 82 Item, ane vche of gold maid like ane ros of diamantis. c 1520 Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 206 Item pro ij rygges, roses, & key plattes, 16d. 1578 in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 293 For xxx{supt}{supi}⊇ dozen of Roases mowlded & guylded. 1611 Cotgr., Rosette,..the Rose at the end of the cheeke of a bitt, next to the reynes. 1655 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Inv. §70 A Key with a Rose-turning pipe and two Roses, pierced through endwise through the Bitt thereof. 1661 Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 173 In roses of diamonds, the Jewels oftentimes keep us from minding the flower and the enamel. 1706 Stevens Sp. Dict., Roséta, a little Rose, such as is made upon curious Works in Silver, or the like to cover a rivet, or for such use. 1806 A. Hunter Culina 54 Put on the upper crust with a hole in the middle, to be covered with a rose of the same paste. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 254/2 The fish..are..packed with the heads outwards in hogs-heads, and a ‘rose’ of fish in the middle to keep the level. |
b. golden rose, an ornament of wrought gold, blessed by the pope on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and usually sent as a mark of favour to some notable Roman Catholic personage, city, or church. Also
ellipt. The ornament has been of various forms; the design finally adopted is a thorny branch with several leaves and flowers, surmounted by a principal rose—all of pure gold.
| 1560 J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 50 The golden Rose, which the Pope had lately consecrated, he sendeth to Henry the eyghte. 1617 Moryson Itin. i. 149 Vessels of gold and silver, Roses hallowed by the Pope (which these Princes hold for rich presents). 1696 Phillips s.v. Rose. 1845 S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 435 The legate..was at length prevailed upon to deliver to the elector the golden rose which had been entrusted to him. 1884 Cath. Dict. (1897) 413/1 Among the recipients of the rose have been..Napoleon III, and Isabella II of Spain. |
c. The card of a mariner's compass (now
usu. compass rose) or of a barometer; more generally, a circular pattern showing the points of the compass.
Cf. wind-rose 2.
| 1527 R. Thorne in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 257 The roses of the windes or pointes of the compasse. 1594 R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 111 The inuention of the Sea-mans compas, consisting of a Rose, and a needle of steele. 1795 C. Hutton Math. Dict. II. 373/1 The 32 lines in the rose or card of the compass. 1919 S. F. Card Air Navigation ii. 11 When the chart or map contains the true and magnetic ‘roses’..the conversion can be done by putting a straight edge from the centre to the true direction. 1937 M. Covarrubias Island of Bali iv. 76 The Nawa Sangga, the magic rose of the winds, the Balinese cardinal directions. Ibid. ix. 280 A chicken with feathers of five colours was placed in the centre [of an offering], next to a small circular Rose of the Winds made of rice dyed in the eight different colours of the cardinal directions. 1943 [see pelorus]. 1951 N. Monsarrat Cruel Sea i. 13 The ship was his: he was to commission and to command H.M.S. Compass Rose... Compass Rose was nothing out of the ordinary; it had to be a flower name because she was one of the new Flower Class corvettes. 1960 E. L. Delmar-Morgan Cruising Yacht Equipment & Navigation ii. 30 The dial or, as we call it these days, Pelorus or dummy compass rose, was the navigator's instrument and was in use for many centuries long before it was given magnets and mounted on a pivot. |
d. A knot or ornamental device inserted in the sound-hole or the table of certain stringed instruments of the guitar type.
| 1676 Mace Mus. Monum. 49 The Knot or Rose in the Lute Belly, would be little and smoothly cut. 1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Lute, In the middle of the Table is a Rose or Passage for the Sound. 1883 Grove's Dict. Music III. 161/1 In the harpsichord and spinet there was usually but one soundhole with its rose. |
e. Arch. = rosette n. 2.
| 1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Abacus, Some Ornament, as a Rose, or other Flower,..in the middle of each Arch. Ibid. s.v. Capital, Twisting round towards the middle of the Face of the Capital, and terminating in the Rose. 1842 Gwilt Encycl. Arch. s.v., The centre of the face of the abacus in the Corinthian capital is decorated with what is called a rose. |
f. Building. A circular, sometimes ornamental mounting through which the shaft of a door-handle may
pass.| 1857 Commissioners of Patents' Jrnl. 16 Jan. 41 Patent 37, January 5, 1857, Andrew Brundish: for mounting knobs, and in constructing and mounting roses for locks, latches and other such like fastenings. 1902 J. T. Rea How to Estimate xi. 217, 2-in cast brass knobs with solid necks, cast rose and escutcheon. 1945 N. W. Kay in R. Greenhalgh Building Repairs iv. 110/1 A knob may be held by its rose and be free to swivel in it. 1957 M. T. Telling in Pract. Building & Decorating ii. iii. 154 To cover holes for keys and spindles, escutcheon plates and roses are fixed with small brass nails or screws. |
g. A circular mounting on a ceiling through which the wiring of an electric light passes;
= ceiling rose s.v. ceiling vbl. n. 7.
| 1889 Illustr. Official Jrnl. (Patent Office) 24 July 616/1 Improvements in roses for supporting electric lamps. 1944 A. C. Greenwood Pract. Electr. Wiring & Contracting v. 152/2 Covers of roses should screw down with an easy motion. 1967 Times Rev. Industry June 74/3 Electric fittings (e.g. switches, roses, lampholders, fuseboxes, junction boxes). 1977 L. R. Wakelin Home Electr. Repairs 24/2 A neutral conductor must be taken to the light rose. |
h. A figure in
Sword-dancing (see
quots.).
| 1913 C. J. Sharp Sword Dances N. England iii. ii. 106 The leader should call ‘Nut’, a bar or two before the end of a strain, so that the Rose may be begun at the commencement of the next strain... The dancers leave the Nut in the hands of No. 1 and fall back into line facing the audience, returning to the original Rose position. 1933 E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-Play 129 There is a persistent figure..in which each dancer presses the hilt of his sword under the point of his neighbour's so as to mesh the swords together..in a form which may be anything from a pentagon to an octagon... This is called the Lock or Nut, which probably means Knot, and at Whitby the Rose. 1971 D. Kennedy North Skelton Sword-Dance 9 The Rose. The leader raises the Lock in his right hand and all dance round clockwise. |
i. An award (differentiated as the
Golden Rose,
Silver Rose, and
Bronze Rose) presented at the International Television Festival at Montreux for successful light entertainment programmes.
| 1961 Times 27 May 7/5 The B.B.C.'s ‘Black and White Minstrel Show’ won the main prize tonight in the Montreux international television festival's Golden Rose contest. The jury awarded the first prize of a ‘golden rose’ and 10,000 Swiss francs..to the B.B.C. show. 1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 457 The C.B.S. spectacular, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, won the top prize for light entertainment—the Golden Rose—at the Montreux International Television Festival in May. 1972 Times 5 May 5/3 Britain carried off both the Golden Rose and the Silver Rose television awards here today for the best television light entertainment shows. 1975 Times 5 May 4 The Goodies, the BBC entry, has won the Silver Rose award at the television festival at Montreux... Italy won the contest and the Golden Rose... The Bronze Rose..went to Austrian television. |
15. a. An ornamental knot of ribbon or other material in the shape of a rose, worn upon a shoe-front.
Cf. rosette n. 1.
| 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 288 Two Prouinciall Roses on my rac'd Shooes. 1650 T. B[ayley] Worcester's Apoph. 39 Silk stockings with roses and Garters suitable. 1774 Westm. Mag. II. 484 Undress{ddd}—Coloured Slippers, and small Roses. 1808 Scott Marm. vi. Introd. 42 The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose. |
| transf. 1609 B. Jonson Sil. Woman ii. i, All the yellow doublets, and great roses i' the towne will bee there. |
b. A rosette worn on a cap or hat,
spec. that of a clergyman. Also
Comb.| 1779 Gentl. Mag. XLIX. 190 How long has the Rose been part of the clerical habit? Ibid. 349 The rose, I apprehend, is peculiar to the English Clergy. 1796 Pegge Anonym. (1809) 147 The Clergyman wears a rose in his hat. 1825–9 Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor IV. xxviii. 402 A rose of lace lay on the table, it had been taken from the cap of Theophilus. 1837 Syd. Smith Let. Singleton Wks. 1859 II. 277/1 The Bishop of Winchester was a Curate; almost every rose-and-shovelman has been a Curate in his time. |
16. † a. A kind of star-fish.
Obs.—1| 1668 Charleton Onomast. 59 Stellæ marinæ,..Star-fishes, Roses. |
b. (See
quot. 1881.)
| c 1879 L. Wright Pigeon Keeper 166 We see even now occasionally an all but circular ‘rose’ instead of a frill in some Owls. Ibid., The round,..amply developed ‘rose-frill’. 1881 J. C. Lyell Fancy Pigeons 184 The rose is formed by the feathers on the crown of the head growing out from the centre in regular form. |
c. A formation suggestive of a rose; the circular protuberance round an animal's horn at its rise from the forehead; a growth around the eyes of certain birds.
| 1880 Dawkins Early Man iv. 88 This most remarkable antler, characterised by the absence of a burr or rose. 1890 Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. XXX. 90 It [tetronerythrin] was first found in the so-called ‘roses’ around the eyes of certain birds by Dr. Wurm. |
d. The rounded end of a potato,
esp. one being used for sprouting.
| 1851 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm (ed. 2) I. 630/2 The sets should be cut with a sharp knife, be pretty large in size, and taken from the rose or crown end of the tubers. 1976 Country Life 5 Feb. 305/4 Seed tubers of earlies [sc. potatoes] will be stood ‘rose’ or blunt end uppermost..to sprout. |
e. Geol. = rock-rose 5,
rosette 5 e.
| 1911 Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum XXXVIII. 19 In Rockenberg occur well-developed rosettes or ‘roses’, often uniting in extensive groups. 1954 R. L. Parker tr. Niggli's Rocks & Mineral Deposits vii. 274 (caption) Rosette-like arrangement of tabular crystals of hematite, known as iron roses. 1955 F. H. Pough Field Guide Rocks & Minerals (ed. 2) ii. 182 [Barite] is found in perfect imitative ‘roses’ of a red-brown color and sandy texture near Norman, Oklahoma. 1973 A. F. L. Deeson et al. Collector's Encycl. Rocks & Minerals 122/3 Gypsum ‘roses’ occur in many areas where gypsum has been dissolved in percolating waters which are drawn to the surface by capillary action and evaporate. |
17. A perforated metal cap or nozzle attached to the spout of a watering-pot, etc., to distribute water in fine sprays; also, a perforated plate fitted on the orifice of a water-pipe, etc., to serve as a sprinkler or strainer.
| 1706 London & Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. 251 This Vessel imitates exactly the Rain.., by shedding the Water it contains out of a Thousand little Holes that are in the Rose of it. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 230 Pieces of tubes..with a rose, like that of a gardener's watering pot. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict., Rose, or Strainer, a plate of copper or lead perforated with small holes, sometimes placed upon the heel of a pump to prevent any thing being sucked in which might choke the pump. 1892 Phot. Ann. II. 48 Use a rose on the tap for washing plates. |
| fig. 1861 A. Wynter Social Bees 276 His whole body became in a few minutes one rose, from which the water previously imbibed transuded. |
18. ellipt. a. = rose diamond.
| 1678 Lond. Gaz. No. 1330/4 Four Roses, cut in India, weighing 3 carrets 1/4, being good stones. 1703 Ibid. No. 3930/4 One [Ring] with 13 Diamonds set in a Lozenge, Roses. 1786 H. Walpole in Leslie & Taylor Sir J. Reynolds (1865) II. 480, 4600 diamonds, all roses. 1851–3 Tomlinson's Cycl. Arts (1867) I. 307/2 The brilliant and the rose lose in cutting and polishing somewhat less than half their weight. 1898 Wigley & Stansbie Art Goldsm. 132 Roses are often cut with fewer facets than are shown in the illustration. |
b. A rose-window.
| 1823 Pugin Gothic Archit. Gloss. s.v. Rose-window, The gable-windows of many of the English churches may boldly claim a comparison with the finest roses. 1851 Longfellow Gold. Leg. iii. Cathedral, See, too, the Rose, above the western portal.., The perfect flower of Gothic loveliness! 1905 Bond Gothic Archit. 517 In France the rose was first put under a circular arch. |
c. = rose-nail.
| 1851–3 Tomlinson's Cycl. Arts (1867) II. 206 A thinner sort, called fine rose, are used in pine and other soft woods. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 165/2 Thus we have the names tacks, sprigs, and brads for very small nails; rose, clasp, and clout, according to the form of head. |
V. attrib. and
Comb. 19. Attributive:
a. In general uses, as
rose-amateur,
rose-bloom,
rose-blossom,
rose-bough,
rose-breath,
rose-culture,
rose-dust,
rose-flake,
rose-flower,
rose-form,
rose-fruit,
rose-grower,
rose-petal,
rose-prickle,
rose-scent,
rose-stem,
rose-time,
rose-tribe.
| 1837 Rivers Rose Amateur's G. 19 Hybrid Provence roses are very robust and..useful to the *rose amateur. |
| 1820 Keats Eve St. Agnes xxv, *Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest. 1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem ii. 34 Heedless if truth maintain On the rose-bloom her station? |
| 1878 Swinburne Forsaken Garden in Poems & Ballads (Ser. 2) 29 The foam-flowers endure when the *rose-blossoms wither. |
| 1927 E. Sitwell Rustic Elegies 37 Beneath the twisted *rose-boughs of the heat. |
| 1892 W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen 93 Ah, leave me still A little space for the *rose-breath to fill. |
| 1846 T. Rivers Rose Amateur's Guide (ed. 4) ii. 131 Modern gardening has made rapid strides in *rose culture. |
| 1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty xiii. 44, I shall be but thin *rose-dust, He will be cold, unkind. 1951 L. MacNeice tr. Goethe's Faust 294 That noble soul which gave me right of seizure They've filched by throwing rose-dust in my eyes. |
| 1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xxii, in Poems (1967) 58 Stigma, signal, cinquefoil token For lettering of the lamb's fleece, ruddying of the *rose-flake. |
| c 1330 Arth. & Merl. 3061 (Kölbing), Violet & *rose flour Woneþ þan in maidens bour. a 1400 Stockh. Med. MS. i. 57 in Anglia XVIII. 296 Take an hand-full of rose-flowris. 1751 Mead Wks. (1775) 372 To rub it often with vinegar, in which rose-flowers..have been infused. 1846 Lindley Veget. Kingd. 564 Perpendicular section of a Rose-flower. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 60 To me it seems the seed is just left over From the red rose-flower's fiery transience. |
| 1731 Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Opulus, The Flowers consist of one Leaf, which expands in a circular *Rose Form. |
| 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 60 How will you have it?—the rose is all in all, Or the ripe *rose-fruits of the luscious fall? a 1963 S. Plath Uncoll. Poems (1965) 9 First frost, and I walk among the rose-fruit. |
| 1857 *Rose-grower [see rose show, sense 23 a below]. 1864 Hibberd Rose Bk. 95 The rose grower must never confound together the idea of a climbing with that of a pillar rose. 1920 G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-Bk. iv. 57 A friend of mine..had some official business with one of the great rose-growers in the neighbourhood of London. 1960 R. Campbell tr. J.-M. A. Gamo in Coll. Poems III. 85 Silken spectrum-blaze Which an eternity shot through with rays Showers with a thousand rose-petals of light. |
| ? 1803 Coleridge Recoll. Love iv, As when a mother doth explore The *rose-mark on her long-lost child. |
| 1850 Ogilvie, Rose-bug, a winged insect..which feeds on *rose-petals. |
| 1611 Bible Eccl. xxiv. 14, I was exalted..as a *rose-plant in Iericho. 1822 Loudon Encycl. Gard. (1824) 892 Rose-plants should be a year in pots..when it is intended to force them. |
| 1944 E. Sitwell Green Song 1 Remember the *rose-prickles of bright paws Though we shall mate no more. |
| 1601 Holland Pliny II. 93 As for *Rose-rewes, the earth ought to be digged and opened about the roots. |
| 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede I. xv. 279 The delicate *rose-scent of his hair. 1885 A. Edwardes Girton Girl I. v. 111 Tintajeux Manoir with its..faded drawing-room, its half lights, its rose scents. |
| 1960 S. Plath Colossus 36 Thorns on the bloody *rose-stem. |
| 1632 Sherwood, A *rose-still, rosaire. 1675 Woolley Gentlew. Comp. 150 Then put it in a Rose-Still, with slices of Lemon-peel. |
| c 1440 Alph. Tales 324 Þis man was passand ferd & compuncte, for als mekull as it was not *rose tyme. 1850 Mrs. Gaskell Let. 26 Apr. (1966) 111 The Shaens begged me to come in rose-time to them. 1912 E. Pound Ripostes 33 Thou keep'st thy rose-leaf Till the rose-time will be over. |
| 1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty v. 26 If none of the *rose-tribe can survive The snow, then how can our poppet live? |
| 1837 Rivers Rose Amateur's G. 82 It sold for a high price.., when first sent forth to the *rose world. |
b. In the sense of ‘used for cultivating roses’, ‘overgrown, overspread with roses’, ‘bordered with roses’, as
rose-alley,
rose-arbour,
rose-bank,
rose-bed,
rose-bower,
rose-farm,
rose-garden,
rose-hedge,
rose-land,
rose-walk,
† rose-yard, etc.
| 1934 E. M. Wright Story of Joseph Wright viii. 232 We formed a torchlight procession down the *rose-alley, and buried Mary's playfellow in her own plot of garden. |
| 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn Rosier, a *Rose arbour. 1977 Belfast Tel. 22 Feb. 9/6 The rose arbor in Belfast's Botanical Gardens provides little shelter from the rain. |
| 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Rosal, a *rosebanke. a 1849 Beddoes Wolfram's Dirge, On a rose-bank to lie dreaming With folded eye. |
| a 1100 in Napier O.E. Glosses xxiii. 8 Rosetis, *rosbeddum. 1610 J. Guillim Her. iii. vii, Knights..whose worth must be tried in the field, not vnder a Rose-bed or in garden-plot. 1812 Crabbe Tales xiii. 418 Save where the pine..on the rose-beds threw a softening shade. |
| 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. vi. 16 Winding walks along *rose-borders led. |
| 1825 Scott Talism. xxiii, The song of the nightingale will sooner blight the *rose-bower she loves. 1876 O. Wilde Kottabos II. x. 269 Roses are white in the rose-bower. 1975 J. O'Faolain Women in Wall iii. 46 ‘Please... Let me do it.’.. ‘Tell,’ he went to sit down in a rose bower, ‘about the Call.’ |
| 1970 T. Hughes Crow 31 The woodpecker drummed clear of the rotovator and the *rose-farm. |
| 1535 Coverdale Ecclus. xxxix. 13 Florish as the *rose garden, synge a songe of prayse. 1848 Thackeray Van. Fair xxxix, Poor Lady Crawley's rose-garden became the dreariest wilderness. 1910 Granta 5 Feb. 201 It is said..that he keeps poultry and a cow, plays simple tunes on a pan pipe, bathes every evening at sunset, and takes all his meals in a rose garden. 1936 T. S. Eliot Burnt Norton in Coll. Poems 1909–35 185 The door we never opened Into the rose-garden. |
| 1867 A. J. Evans St. Elmo xxi. 292 A Cherokee *rose-hedge is not more thickly set with thorns than a literary career with grievous, vexatious, tormenting disappointments. |
| 1856 N. & Q. 2nd Ser. II. 72/2 [He] has a perfectly green rose in flower in his new *rose-house. |
| 1929 R. Bridges Testament of Beauty iii. 88 In the New World far Pasadena's *roseland. |
| 1708 Kersey, Rosere, a *Rose-plat. |
| c 1765 T. Flloyd Tartarian T. (1785) 55/2 Gulpenhe has placed a large dyke at the end of the *rose-walk. |
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 311/2 A *Rose ȝerde, rosetum. 1530 Palsgr. 264/1 Roseyarde where roses growe, rosier. |
c. In sense ‘made of roses’, as
rose-crown,
rose-crants,
rose-garland,
rose-wreath.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints i. (Peter) 708 With lely and rose-cronis in hand. c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame i. 135, I sawgh..on hir hede..Hir Rose garlonde, white and rede. 1477–9 Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 81 For Rose-garlondis and wodrove-garlondis on Saynt Barnebes day. 1513 Douglas æneis v. vii. 8 For the victor a bull, and all his heid Of..rois garlandis reid Buskit full weill. a 1634 Chapman Alphonsus Plays 1873 III. 271 When thou hadst stoln her daintie rose Corance And pluck'd the flow'r of her virginitie. 1643 A. Ross Mel Helic. 106 A Rose-crown was more fit For thee, and Thorns for this of mine. |
d. In sense ‘made from roses’, ‘flavoured or scented with essence of roses’, as
rose-camphor,
rose-honey,
rose-oil,
rose-powder,
rose-sugar, etc.
| 1552 Turner Herbal ii. u iij, Rose oyle conforteth the same partes that the stilled water of roses doth. 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 129 The best way to eate them is with Rose-sugar. 1648 Hexham 11, Roosen-honigh, rose-hony. 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 123 Lawn, musks, civets, rosepowders, gessamy butter, complexion waters. 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Ointment, To have Rose Ointment, Take..fresh red Roses pounded [etc.]. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 1149 The most fashionable toilet soaps are, the rose, the bouquet [etc.]. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 160/1 A dirty oil results, which on standing for some time forms several distinct layers, the upper one of which is sold as rose-oil. 1855 Ogilvie Suppl., Rose-camphor, one of the two volatile oils composing attar of roses. 1883 Cassell's Dict. Cookery 771/2 Rose Brandy, for flavouring Cakes and Puddings. Ibid. 772/1 Rose tea in some complaints is a useful tonic. |
e. In sense ‘designed or made in the form of a rose’, as
rose-band,
rose-boss,
rose-knot,
rose-lashing, etc.
| 1510 York Fabric Rolls (Surtees) 263 Also yt is ordeynd rose bandes and fillettes and other carrifying wark. 1611 Florio, Rosette, little Roses; also Rose purles or worke in bone-lace. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v. Knot, The principal of these are the diamond-knot, the rose-knot, the wall-knot. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 13 The foot-ropes..should be..seized to the boom by a rose-seizing through an eye⁓splice. 1842 Francis Dict. Arts & Sci., Rose Ornament, a common ornament in cornices, around apertures, and in other parts of Gothic architecture. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Rose-Lashing, this lashing is middled, and passed opposite ways; when finished, the ends appear as if coiled round the crossings. 1873 Tristram Moab xi. 199 On the flat wall itself runs a large pattern like a continued W, with a large rose boss between each angle. 1947 A. Ransome Great Northern? i. 20 A hand..took hold of the rose knot worked in the end of the bit of rope that dangled from the clapper of a small ship's bell. |
20. a. Attrib., in sense ‘having the colour of a rose’, passing into
adj., rosy, roseate, rose-coloured.
| 1816 Byron Ch. Har. iii. xcix, The snows above The very Glaciers have his colours caught, And sun-set into rose-hues sees them wrought. 1830 Tennyson Adeline 7 Thy rose-lips and full blue eyes Take the heart from out my breast. 1850 Thackeray Pendennis xxi[i], She was ordinarily pale, with a faint rose tinge in her cheeks. 1858 W. Bagehot in National Rev. Apr. 455 The harsh outlines of poverty will not bear the artificial rose-tint. 1870 F. Kilvert Diary 13 Mar. (1938) I. 56 The mountain clad in deep snow and tinged with rose colour... As the sun set a lovely rose tint stole over the snowy mountains. 1876 Contemp. Rev. June 48 The roselight of the morning sun. 1906 W. de la Mare Poems 124 From the day, The rose⁓light ebbed away. 1916 Joyce Portrait of Artist (1969) v. 218 The dull white light spread itself east and west, covering the world, covering the roselight in his heart. 1922 C. Mackenzie Altar Steps xxvii. 315 A set [of vestments] in old rose damask for mid-Lent. 1929 Blunden Near & Far 47 And sounding works whose smoke lifts proud Through towers of force to yon rose-cloud. 1930 E. Pound XXX Cantos ii. 13 The coral face under wave⁓tinge, Rose-paleness under water-shift. 1932 Blunden Face of England 85 And that far rose-reflection burns On the dusk water far too red. 1949 Dylan Thomas Let. 13 Oct. (1966) 328, I have the hot and cold rose-flush comings and goings after elderberry wine last night. 1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon iv. 82, I held her hand to examine its dusky rose-bloom. |
b. Used predicatively.
| 1833 Tennyson Pal. Art 169 The lights, rose, amber, emerald, blue. 1871 J. Hay Pike County Ball. (1880) 54 A sky as glad as the smile of Heaven Blushed rose o'er the minster-glades. |
c. With names of colours:
cf. rose-pink,
-red.
| 1812 Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. ii. 434 Green Parrakeet, with rose-blue head. 1845 Beck's Florist 232 Among the best were Ivery's Prince Albert [petunia], rose-crimson. 1882 Garden 15 July 58/2 Flowers large, semi-double, delicate rose-lilac. 1916 E. & O. Sitwell 20th-Cent. Harlequinade 23 Rose-silver haze. 1928 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 1/1 Felt hat... Colors Sand; Rose-Beige; Gobelin Blue. 1930 E. Pound XXX Cantos xvii. 78 Stone trees, white and rose-white in the darkness. 1932 H. Crane Let. 13 Feb. (1965) 399 Wine glasses of a smoky rose-purple transparency that set one dreaming. 1949 E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxvi. 43 And within the crystal, went up swift as Thetis In colour rose-blue before sunset And carmine and amber. 1953 W. de la Mare O Lovely England 33 Rose-green the light where a hermit knelt, praying, His solitude verdurous, vision-like, still. 1966 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times V. 21 Their rose-brown flesh burnt by the sun. 1977 Horse & Hound 10 June 41/3 (Advt.), 14 hands 1 in outstanding quality rose grey gelding, 4 yrs. |
21. Parasynthetic:
a. With reference to colour, as
rose-bellied,
rose-enamelled,
rose-faced,
rose-fingered,
rose-finned,
rose-flecked,
rose-flushed,
rose-footed,
rose-impearled,
rose-lit,
rose-shadowed,
rose-shot,
rose-spotted,
rose-stained,
rose-veiled, etc.
| 1809 Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. 377 *Rose-bellied crow. |
| a 1586 Sidney Astr. & Stella Sonn. xcix, That sweete aire which is Morne's messenger, with *rose-enameld skies. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey vi. ii, Rays of living fire flame over the rose-enamelled East. |
| 1820 Shelley Prometh. Unb. i. 321 Golden-sandalled feet, that glow..Like *rose-ensanguined ivory. |
| 1847 Webster, *Rose-faced. 1884 Tennyson Becket Prol., The rosefaced minion of the King. |
| 1920 Blunden Waggoner 20 The *rose-finned roach and bluish bream. |
| 1599 T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 11 *Rose-fingred Dame no sooner had put out Nights twinckling fires. 1838 W. Maginn Homeric Ball. (1850) 25 Until the rose-fingered queen of day Sprang from the dawn. |
| 1965 E. Bishop Questions of Travel 25 Hastily, all alone, a glistening armadillo left the scene, *rose-flecked, head down, tail down. |
| 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. vi. 86 Over a red wall hung down the branch of a plum tree, loaded with creamy ovals of fruit, already *rose-flushed with summer. |
| 1942 E. Sitwell Street Songs 31 Then, who knows *Rose-footed swan from snow, or girl from rose. |
| 1812 Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. ii. 434 *Rose-headed parrakeet... Green Parrakeet, with rose-blue head, black throat and collar. |
| 1830 Tennyson Arab. Nts. 140 Flowing beneath her *rose-hued zone. |
| 1917 G. Frankau City of Fear 25 *Rose-impearled o'er a wonder-world Glowed the last of the sunset-gleams. |
| 1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger iv. iii. 479 He left the crowded and *rose-lit dining-room early. |
| 1867 G. Meredith Vittoria I. i. 12 The gleam of the distant *rose-shadowed snows. 1957 R. Campbell Coll. Poems II. 109 Freckled like rose-shot apricots. |
| 1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 73 Sepals with a white, *rose-spotted, ribbon-like appendage. |
| a 1973 J. R. R. Tolkien Silmarillion (1977) xxiv. 250 Like a white bird, shining, *rose-stained in the sunset. |
| 1875 M. Collins Blacksmith & Sch. I. 274 The eye is aroused by the beauty of her *rose-tinged cheek. |
| 1952 R. Campbell tr. Baudelaire's Poems 46 The balcony beneath a *rose-veiled sky. |
b. With reference to form, as
rose-flowered,
rose-headed,
rose-leaved,
rose-shaped, etc.
| 1703 in Dampier's Voy. (1729) III. 456 Rose podded Rest-harrow... Grows a Foot and half high. 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Pæonia, The dwarf rose-flowered winter piony. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 597 Preventing the beans from becoming what is termed rose-headed. 1839–52 Bailey Festus 189 By the bloom wherein thou dwellest, As in a rose-leaved nest. c 1850 Rudim. Nav. (Weale) 135 Boat-nails..are..generally rose-headed. 1887 Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 5) 495 The true German Geranium Oil or Oil of Rose-leaved Geranium. 1933 E. Sitwell Five Variations 4 And many a rose-shaped heart must lie beneath The maps on strawberry leaves. 1945 C. L. B. Hubbard Observer's Bk. Dogs 87 Ears rose-shaped. |
22. a. Similative, as
rose-ambrosial,
rose-bright,
rose-carved,
rose-cut,
rose-fragrant,
rose frail,
rose-fresh,
rose-full,
rose-heavy,
rose-hot,
rose-pale,
rose-soft,
rose-solemn,
rose-towering, etc.
| 1936 L. B. Lyon Bright Feather Fading 54 Alas, no rose-ambrosial world men share Who fall from love and falling cease to be. |
| 1839–48 Bailey Festus xiv. 138, I could sit and set that rose-bright smile, Until it seem to grow immortal there. |
| 1805 Scott Last Minstr. vi. xxiii, Blaz'd every rose-carved buttress fair. |
| 1773 Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. 111, A parcel of old-fashioned rose and table-cut things. |
| 1927 Joyce Pomes Penyeach 3 Frail the white rose and frail are Her hands that gave... Rosefrail and fair..My blueveined child. |
| 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 336 Antonia, cool, glistening, delicately robed, and rose-fresh. |
| 1932 E. Sitwell Bath iv. 68 The rose-full, rose-soft, hooped dresses are wet with dew. |
| 1895 W. B. Yeats in Sat. Rev. 2 Nov. 573/1 The rose-heavy twilight. |
| 1922 D. H. Lawrence in English Rev. Feb. 101 The living steel In rose-hot tips, and flakes of rose-pale snow. 1951 W. de la Mare Winged Chariot 50 That rose-pale cheek, loose hair, and eager tongue. |
| c 1860 J. R. Lowell Power of Sound (1896) 9 So sang she, feeling in her bosom stir The rose-soft palms of that first murderer. 1916 Joyce Portrait of Artist (1969) iv. 155 It was only..within rosesoft stuffs that he dared to conceive of the soul or body of a woman moving with tender life. 1932 [see rose-full above]. 1935 W. Empson Poems 22 Snow-puppy curves, rose-solemn dado band. |
| 1609 J. Davies (Heref.) Holy Roode cxxv, Yet Rose-sweet is the ingresse to these Briers. |
| 1949 S. Spender Edge of Being 16 To wake on peaks at dawn among the inhuman Rose-towering dreams. |
| 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Pears, When they serve them up, they range them handsomly upon a Dish Roseways. |
| Ibid. s.v. Rasberry-Bush, Five Leaves rose-wise. |
| 1887 G. Meredith Ball. & Poems 155 This body stood rose-warm in the courts. |
b. Instrumental, as
rose-clad,
rose-circled,
rose-clustered,
rose-covered,
rose-crowned,
rose-embowered,
rose-entangled,
rose-festooned,
rose-garlanded,
rose-lamped,
rose-wreathed, etc.
| 1975 G. Ewart Be my Guest! i. 32 Or I see Gertrude waving from a cottage with a very attractive *rose-circled door. |
| 1869 S. R. Hole Bk. about Roses 142 Now we have passed through the *Rose-clad walls—through the Rose-wreathed colonnades and courts of the outer palace. |
| 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 50 This flower-massed, *rose-clustered, floating island. |
| 1849–50 Alison Hist. Europe IV. xxvi. §71. 615 The *rose-covered fields of Fayoum..were..visited. |
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. ii. 542 May still raigns, and *rose-crown'd Zephyrus..makes the green trees to buss. 1849 M. Arnold Mycerinus 93 Here came the king, holding high feast, at morn Rose-crown'd. 1910 R. Brooke Hill in Cambr. Rev. XXXII. 181/1 We shall go down with unreluctant tread Rose-crowned into the darkness! |
| 1918 G. Frankau One of Them 257 Screen me..From my sub-conscious Freudian profanity, That *rose-embowered private sitting-room. |
| 1962 I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose v. xxvi. 249 He wandered towards her through a *rose-entangled forest. |
| 1929 M. Lowry Let. 13 Mar. (1967) 5 Of course it was..merely a *rose-festooned illusion. |
| 1917 A. Waugh Loom of Youth iv. viii. 322 He had done what he set out to do, he would step *rose-garlanded out of the lighted room, in the flush of his success. |
| 1868 Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. i. 405 So far..That she a *rose-hedged garden could behold. |
| 1925 C. Day Lewis Beechen Vigil 24 Like a queen of fable In *rose-lamped gardens. |
| 1591 Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 1029 An extream Fever..wanly did displace The *Rose-mixt-Lillies in her lovely face. |
| 1818 Shelley Rosal. & Helen 820 His cheek became..fair, As *rose-o'er-shadowed lilies are. |
| 1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline ii. iii. 108 *Rose-wreathed, vine-encircled, a broad and spacious veranda. 1869 [see rose-clad]. 1924 R. Graves Mock Beggar Hall 61 While incense burns beside the rose-wreathed couch. |
c. With
vbl. ns. and
ppl. adjs., as
rose-bearing,
rose-diffusing,
rose gathering, etc.
| 1756 Dyer Fleece i. 470 A drear abode! from rose diffusing hours. 1863 S. R. Hole in Gardeners' Ann. 109 One of the chief charms of rose-growing is the frequent..arrival of New Roses. 1869 ― Bk. about Roses 87 The teaching of those Rose-loving brothers over the Border. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal ii, He had never paused in his rose-gathering. |
23. a. Special combs.:
rose-berry, a hip;
rose bit, a countersink bit having a conical head with a number of radial cutting teeth that meet at the tip;
† rose blanket U.S., a blanket decorated with a rose motif;
rose box, (
a) a box for holding roses; (
b)
Naut. (see
quot. 1976);
rose-burner,
= rosette n. 5 c;
rose-catarrh,
U.S., rose-cold or rose-fever;
rose-cistern, one receiving the rose of a pump;
rose-clinch, a kind of nail (see
quot. 1875); also
attrib.;
rose-cold,
U.S., a kind of fever resembling hay-fever;
† rose-cross [F.
rose-croix],
= Rosicrucian a.;
† rose-cup,
= sense 13;
rose diagram, a diagram in which values of a quantity in various directions are shown graphically according to compass bearing, in the manner of a wind-rose;
rose-draught, a drink made from or with the essence of roses;
rose-encrinite, a rose-like fossil crinoid;
rose-eyed,
a. (see
pin-eyed a.);
rose-fever,
U.S., the rose-cold;
rose-gall, an excrescence produced on the dog-rose, etc., by certain insects;
† rose-garland, a form of still;
rose gold, an alloy of gold with a little copper, having a reddish tinge;
rose hatband, a hatband decorated with a rosette;
rose head, (
a) a kind of nail (see
quot. 1835); (
b) an instrument used in dentistry; (
c)
= sense 17; (
d) a spreading top on an upright rain-pipe;
rose-hip,
= rose-berry; also
= hip n.2;
rose hip syrup, a syrup containing extract of rose hips, taken as a source of vitamin C;
rose-hip tea, a beverage made from rose-hips and hot water;
rose-iron, an iron-glance or hæmatite, occurring in rosette-like groups of tabular crystal found in Switzerland (
Cassell's Encycl. Dict.);
rose-jar, a jar for holding dried rose petals;
† rose-key, a key in which the end of the hollow stem is of a rose-shaped pattern;
† rose-knight, ? a Rosicrucian;
rose-lathe, a rose-engine;
rose-nozzle,
= sense 17;
† rose-parley, pleasant conversation or discourse;
rose-pear (see
quot. 1708);
† rose-pence, coin of low value, bearing the figure of a rose, issued for currency in Ireland;
rose-petal, used
attrib. of various preserves, wine, etc., made from rose petals;
† rose-pipe, the shaft or stem of a rose-key;
rose-point, point-lace exhibiting the raised pattern of a conventional rose;
rose-pump, one having a rose at the shaft-end;
rose-ring (see
quot. and sense 18 a);
rose show, an exhibition mainly or entirely of roses;
rose-spot,
Path., a red spot characteristic of certain fevers;
rose-sprinkler,
= sense 17;
† rose-stone (see
quot.);
Rose Sunday obs. exc. Hist., the fourth Sunday in Lent;
rose-temple, a belvedere over which climbing roses may be trained;
rose-wine = rosolio;
rose-work, work produced by or turned in a rose-engine; the process by which this work is produced; also
attrib.| 1856 E. Capern Poems 76, I track'd her where hawthorn and *roseberries burn To vie with the holly's rich glow. 1868 Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 178 Among them [sc. small fruits] may be noted red and black currants,..and rose-berries,..the fruit of the Rosa cinnamomea. c 1921 D. H. Lawrence Mr. Noon iv, in Mod. Lover (1934) 224 Gilbert helped her to pick scarlet rose-berries, and black privet berries. |
| 1846 Holtzapffel Turning II. 565 The *rose-bit..is..very much used for light finishing cuts, in brass, iron, and steel; the extremity is cylindrical,..and the end is cut into teeth like a countersink. 1858 Min. Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers XVII. 178 A ‘rose-bit’ is..employed, to remove the intervening metal. 1875 T. Seaton Fret Cutting 70 A rose-bit is a conical piece of steel, cut into a coarse file, and used for sloping off the edges of the screw-holes, so that the screw⁓head may not project above the metal. There is another kind of rose-bit for wood-work. 1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Wood-working Terms 7 The chief type [of countersink bit] is the ‘rose’ bit which has radial flutes which shave away the edge of the hole. |
| 1759 Newport (Rhode Island) Mercury 26 June 3/2 Just imported by Simon Pease, jun..best *Rose Blankets. 1820 Columbian Centinel 8 Jan. 3/4 A great variety of Dry Goods:..Rose Blankets. |
| 1863 S. R. Hole in Gardeners' Ann. 5 *Rose-boxes and tubes are ordered from London. 1923 Man. Seamanship (Admiralty) II. xviii. 305 Gear Boxes... Suction and delivery hoses with bends and rose boxes. 1972 L. M. Harris Introd. Deepwater Floating Drilling Operations App. B 238 Bilge drainage should be checked... The rose boxes and strainer plates are clear, clean and sound. 1976 Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 722/2 Rose Box, the name given to the strainer at the end of the suction pipe of a bilge pump... It is also widely known, particularly in yachts, as a strum box. |
| 1879 Webster Suppl. s.v. Burner, *Rose-burner. |
| 1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict., *Rose-catarrh. |
| 1778 Pryce Min. Cornub. 170 A pump, that conveys the water from the *rose cistern to the tye pump. |
| 1851–3 Tomlinson's Cycl. Arts (1867) II. 206 *Rose-clench is a sort much used in ship and boat-building. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1506/1 Rose-clinch nail; rose head, square point, either clinched or riveted down on a washer or rove. |
| 1879 Webster Suppl., *Rose-cold. 1880 Libr. Univ. Knowl. (N.Y.) VII. 377 Two forms [of hay-fever], one called the rose cold or June cold, corresponding to the affection known in England. |
| 1627 Drayton Agincourt, etc. 216 The *Rose-crosse knowledge which is much like that, A Tarrying-iron for fooles to labour at. |
| 1438 Will of Matilda Lane (Somerset Ho.), My salt saler and my ij *Rose cowppes be delyvered to William Kirketon and to John Kirketon. |
| 1938 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XLIX. 1887 The orientation of the long axes are [sic] plotted as a conventional ‘*rose’ diagram. 1956 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. CXII. 71 A rose diagram is made showing the directions, in 10-degree classes, of the long axes of the stones. 1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xiii. 175 (caption) Rose diagram representing readings of dip directions of the cross laminae of either linguoid ripples or barchan dunes. |
| 1849 Blackw. Mag. Jan. 40 One might as well take a *rose-draught for the plague. |
| 1882 Ogilvie, Rhodocrinus,..the *rose-encrinites. |
| 1884 J. E. Taylor Sagacity & Mor. Plants 79 Common people have long distinguished such Primroses under the names of ‘pin-eyed’ and ‘*Rose-eyed’. |
| 1851 E. S. Wortley Trav. III. 22 This complaint [sc. hay-asthma] is known in the United States, and is called there, *rose-fever. 1879 Webster Suppl., Hay-fever.. is also called..hay-cold, rose-cold, and rose-fever. 1884 M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 306 In America the affection is sometimes called ‘rose fever’. |
| 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., *Rose galls,..certain unnatural productions of the rosa sylvestris, or dog rose. 1822 Loudon Encycl. Gard. (1824) 893 Some..are attacked by the Cynips rosæ, which, by puncturing the bark, occasions the production of rose-galls. |
| 1527 Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters b iv, Ye shall dystylle in common styllatoryes named *Rose-garlandys. |
| 1708 Lond. Gaz. No. 4408/4 Lost.., a Gold Watch,..with a *Rose-Gold Chain. 1901 Rose gold [see karat]. 1948 A. Selwyn Retail Jeweller's Handbk. (ed. 3) x. 137 Red gold had a revival when Paris jewellers re-introduced it in jewellery in 1937–38, and other countries followed. Pale shades are called pink or rose gold. |
| 1708 Lond. Gaz. No. 5464/3 A *Rose Hat-band about his Hat. |
| 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July xxiv. 128 A Barrel..that has an Arm of Tin fix'd in with a *Rose⁓head, that the Water may run on their Roots. 1835 Partington's Brit. Cycl., Arts & Sci. I. 862/2 To form the heads of horse-nails, called rose heads. 1859 J. Tomes Dental Surg. 344 The rose-head is very serviceable in reducing to a cylindrical form the ragged opening of a small cavity. 1883 Specif. Alnwick & Cornhill Railway 51 Four-inch rain-pipes are to be provided, with proper roseheads. |
| 1857 A. Gray First Less. Bot. (1866) 125 A *Rose-hip may be likened to a strawberry turned inside out. 1915 Chambers's Jrnl. 20 Mar. 271/2 These [sc. plants for feeding pigs and fowls] were supplemented in the autumn by non-fattening foods, such as acorns..and rose-hips. 1976 Norwich Mercury 17 Dec. 3/7 They [sc. bird paintings] include a greenfinch with rosehips. |
| 1942 Q. Jrnl. Pharmacy XV. 314 During the winter of 1941–42 the Ministry of Health experimented with two new large-scale sources of the vitamin, black⁓currant purée and *rose hip syrup. 1972 J. Mann Mrs. Knox's Profession x. 82 Gripe water, rose hip syrup and everything else a baby could conceivably need. |
| 1964 G. Hauser Treasury of Secrets v. 52 The pink *rose hip tea..is the great favorite at the famous Bircher-Brenner Sanatorium in Switzerland. 1973 C. Bonington Next Horizon xii. 175 John and Dougal settled down to their meal of dried meat and nuts, followed by rose-hip tea. |
| 1894 Harper's Mag. Jan. 310/1 A *rose-jar stood on one [table] in the corner. |
| 1655 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Invent. (1663) E 3 b, A *Rose Key. |
| 1631 R. Bolton Comf. Affl. Consc. (1640) 266 Let..all the Physitians in the World, even the *Rose-Knights, as they call themselves, lay all their heads together for the cure. |
| 1855 Ogilvie Suppl., *Rose-lathe. |
| 1879 Goode Anim. Res. & Fisheries U.S. 247 *Rose-nozzles (for washing eggs). |
| 1582 Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 62 Shee claspt my righthand, her sweet *rose parlye thus adding. |
| 1611 Cotgr., Poire d'eau rose, the *Rose-Peare. 1708 Kersey, Rose-pear, a kind of Pear whose Pulp eats short, and is ripe in August and September. |
| 1556 Proclam. 19 Sept. in Tudor Proclam. (1897), Their sayde Maiesties..do will and commaunde that all *rose pence shall..be no more receyued nor taken for lawefull..monye, within thys their realme of England, or any other their domynyons excepte..Irelande. |
| 1935 H. Edib Clown & his Daughter xxxvi. 201 I've brought stuffed vine-leaves and *rose⁓petal jam, Tewfik. 1963 M. McCarthy Group i. 18 An Armenian restaurant in the twenties, where you got rose⁓petal jelly for dessert. 1968 J. Rathbone Hand Out vi. 36 His breakfast..consisted of sour grey bread, white cheese, rose-petal syrup and tea. 1970 Rose Ann. 93 Pot-pourri and rose petal jam from well-loved old recipes..are often made at home... Home-made rose-petal wine has a delicious taste. 1975 P. Somerville-Large Couch of Earth vii. 115 The waiter..came over..the napkin over his arm stained with rosepetal jam. 1977 Times 25 Nov. (Christmas Bk. Suppl.) p. xxx/4 Experimenting with rose petal oils to soften the skin. |
| 1655 Marquis of Worcester Cent. Invent. §44 To make a Key of a Chamber door, which to your sight hath its Wards and *Rose-pipe but Paper-thick. |
| 1865 Athenæum No. 1944. 132 *Rose-point and pillow lace. 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlewk. 454/2 Spanish point, or Spanish Guipure à Bride, or Rose Point, is a Needle Lace. |
| 1778 Pryce Min. Cornub. 170 Old fire engine *rose pumps. 1838 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 139/1 And the diameters of the tie and rose lift pumps were 11 inches. |
| 1705 Lond. Gaz. No. 4121/4 Lost,..a *Rose Ring, with a..Brilliant in the middle, set round with..small Diamonds. |
| 1857 Florist Apr. 122 A suggestion to Rose growers—amateurs and professionals:—why should we not have, near some central station (such as Rugby) A Grand National *Rose Show? 1978 Lancashire Life Sept. 40 The Lakeland Rose Show this year cost {pstlg}25,000 to stage. |
| 1888 Fagge & Pye-Smyth Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 172 It is often impossible to say..whether they are really *rose-spots or..ordinary pimples. |
| 1890 Anthony's Photogr. Bulletin III. 22 The rubber tubing over the washing tank was removed, and a *rose sprinkler attached to the faucet. |
| 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 213 The Names of Rough Stones [i.e. diamonds]. A *Rose Stone, if round; if long, a Fossel. |
| 1880 McClintock & Strong Cycl. Bibl. Lit. IX. 130 It is not known when the ceremony of consecrating the rose was introduced... The day is always the fourth Sunday in Lent, which is consequently known as ‘*Rose-Sunday’. 1891 tr. Pastor's Hist. Popes I. 220 Golden roses were bestowed each year on Laetare Sunday, hence called Rose Sunday. |
| 1864 S. Hibberd Rose Bk. vi. 125 To form a simple *rose temple is a matter of no great difficulty. 1894 Country Gentlemen's Catal. 295/2 Rose Temple..Price— {pstlg}5. With Openings filled in to form a Summer House. Price—{pstlg}7 5/-. |
| 1852 in Venerabile (1930) Apr. 357 A good dinner and caffe after with beautiful *rose-wine. |
| 1680 Moxon Mech. Exerc. xiv. 241 Of *Rose-work, &c. Rose-Work Turning, or Works of any other Figure, are performed..after the same manner as Oval Work is made. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 81 Watch-cases, snuff-boxes, and various sorts of trinkets, are sometimes formed by what is called rose-work. |
b. In names of plants, flowers, etc.:
rose acacia, a tree (
Robinia hispida) having rose-coloured flowers; the American moss-locust;
rose box, a plant of the genus
Cotoneaster (
Cent. Dict.);
rose-briar, a rose-bush or rose-tree;
† rose elder, the Guelder rose;
rose geranium, a rose-scented species of geranium,
Pelargonium capitatum, or
P. graveolens, or one of several varieties of them; also, a perfume resembling the scent of these flowers;
rose gum, a large gumtree,
Eucalyptus grandis, found in eastern Australia;
rose laurel, the oleander;
rose lichen, a kind of lichen,
Parmelia kamtschadalis, used for giving a perfume and rosy hue to the fabric in calico-printing;
rose lily,
lupine (see
quots.);
rose mahogany, an eastern Australian timber tree,
Dysoxylum fraserianum, of the family Meliaceæ, or its fragrant reddish wood;
rose mallow, (
a) the hollyhock,
Althæa (or
Malva)
rosea; (
b) the genus
Hibiscus of the N.O.
Malvaceæ; a plant of this genus;
rose oak, ? some Indian species of rhododendron;
† rose parsley, a species of anemone,
A. hortensis;
rose pea, a species of garden pea cultivated in the 17th and 18th centuries;
rose plantain, the name of several species of plantain (see
quots.);
rose poppy, the corn rose;
† rose ribwort, the rose plantain;
rose snowball tree,
tangle,
tulip (see
quots.);
rose vine,
U.S., a climbing rose;
rose-willow, one of several species of salicaceous trees or shrubs, as
Salix helix,
S. rosea, or
S. purpurea;
rose-withy (see
quot.). Also
rose-apple, -bay, etc.
| 1819 Pantologia s.v. Robinia, Robinia hispida, *rose acacia, or robinia. 1852 Motley Corr. (1889) I. v. 129 The acacias (rose acacias) under my window..are not yet leafless. |
| 1598 Florio, Rosaio, Rosaro, a *rose bryer. 1840 Hor. Smith Cromwell I. 109 A coppice,..matted with wild rose-briars. 1932 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems 178 Rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools And rose-briars to strangle the machine. |
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal 1237 The *Rose Elder groweth in gardens, and..is called in Latine, Sambucus rosea, and Sambucus aquatica, being doubtlesse a kind of the..water Elder. |
| 1832 Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. 7 Apr. 76/2 Thorburn bought a *rose geranium, intending to ornament his shop. 1867 A. J. Wilson Vashti xxxiii, A few violets, mignonette, and one very luxuriant rose-geranium. 1885 A. Brassey In the Trades 426 The rose-geranium is here [in the Bermudas] called the ‘grave⁓yard geranium’, probably from the fact that it is grown in all the churchyards on the island. 1890–1 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall & Winter 42/2 Perfumes..Italian violet, rose geranium, white heliotrope. 1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. 69 Clouding The cooling water with rose geranium soap. 1964 C. Loewenfeld Herb Gardening ii. 171 Rose geranium is a shrubby plant with deeply cut and divided leaves and clusters of pink and lavender flowers. 1971 Vogue 15 Sept. 85/1 Bubble Bath in four fragrances—Lemon Verbena, English Fern, Rose Geranium and Lavender Blue. |
| 1947 R. H. Anderson Trees New South Wales (ed. 2) 158 Flooded Gum or *Rose Gum (Eucalyptus grandis). A tall, frequently majestic tree. 1967 A. Rule Forests Austral. iii. 36 Species such as tallowwood and rose gum, occurring in the humid coastal forests of eastern Australia. |
| 1548 Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 56 Nerion..maye be called in englishe Rose bay tree or *rose Laurel. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 110 The bright rose-laurels trembled in the air. |
| 1840 Browning Sordello ii. 30 If he stopped to pick *Rose-lichen, or molest the leeches quick. |
| 1831 M. Russell Egypt (1832) 488 The *rose-lily of the Nile, or the Egyptian bean,..is the nymphæa nelumbo of Linnæus. |
| 1731 Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Lupinus, The *Rose Lupine. 1822 Hortus Anglicus II. 229 L[upinus] Pilosus. Rose Lupine... Corolla pale flesh-colour, standard red. |
| 1929 W. D. Francis Austral. Rain-Forest Trees 185 Dysoxylum fraserianum Benth. Rose⁓wood, *Rose Mahogany. 1958 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. June 59/1 Rose mahogany..resembles Honduras mahogany. 1965 Austral. Encycl. III. 319/2 One of the best-known and most abundant of these [trees] is the rose mahogany. Ibid., Its dust, like that of rose mahogany, has an irritating effect on tender parts of the skin. |
| 1731 Miller Gard. Dict., Malva rosea: *Rose Mallow, or Hollyhock. 1857 A. Gray First Less. Bot. (1866) 115 A pollen-grain..of Hibiscus or Rose-Mallow, studded with prickly points. |
| 1879 E. Arnold Lt. Asia 43 Lower grew *rose-oaks and the great fir groves. |
| 1548 Turner Names Herbes (E.D.S.) 13 Anemone groweth muche about Bon in Germany;..it is called of the common herbaries Herba venti, it may be called in english *rose perseley. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 227 This Argemony aforesaid hath leaues like to Anemony, i. Rose Persly or Windfloure: jagged they be in maner of garden Parsly. |
| 1629 J. Parkinson Parad. lii. 522 The Scottish or tufted Pease, which some call the *Rose Pease, is a good white Pease fit to be eaten. 1690 L. Hammond Jrnl. 2 Apr. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1892) 2nd Ser. VII. 154 Wedensday, I planted my Rose pease. 1725 Family Dict. s.v. Pease, Tufted or Rose Pease, of two Sorts. 1726 B. Townsend Compl. Seedsman 5 The Rose Pea, or Crown Pea, brings a Bunch of Peasecods on the Top of the Plant, and no where else. |
| 1629 Parkinson Paradisi 352 Plantago Rosea, *Rose Plantane. 1741 [see plantain1 1 b]. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 120/2 The variety of Plantago media, called the Rose-plantain in gardens. |
| 1648 Hexham 11, Koren-rose, *Rose-poppie, that growes in Corne. |
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal 342 *Rose Ribwoort hath many broade and long leaues. |
| 1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gard. Dict. 790/2 *Rose Snowball Tree, Viburnum Opulus roseum. |
| 1846 Lindley Veg. Kingdom 23 Ceramiaceæ.—*Rosetangles... Seaweeds of a rose or purplish colour, seldom olive or violet. |
| 1850 Ogilvie, *Rose-tulip, a species of tulip, the Tulipa rosea. |
| 1879 Tourgee Fool's Errand (1883) 36 A little verandah, over which clambers a *rose-vine still wreathed with buds and blossoms. |
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal 1204 The *Rose Willow groweth vp likewise to the heighth and bignesse of a shrubbie tree;..the branches are many, whereupon do growe very many twigs of a reddish colour. 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. i. 75 note, The scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose-willow, grow into leaves. 1855 Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 72 Rose Willow..owes its name..to certain rose-like expansions at the end of the branches. |
| 1671 Skinner Etym. Bot., *Rosy-withy, vel Rose-bay; Willow-herb. |
c. Ent. In the names of insects which frequent and feed upon the rose:
rose-aphis, the plant-louse
Aphis (or
Siphonophora)
rosea;
rose-beetle,
bug, the rose-chafer or rose-fly;
rose-cutter bee (see
quot.);
rose-fly, the rose-chafer;
rose gall-fly, an insect which produces galls on rose-leaves;
rose-grub,
-maggot, a grub or maggot of a rose-infesting insect;
rose-hopper,
rose leaf-hopper, a greenish-yellow sucking insect,
Typhlocyba (or
Edwardsiana)
rosæ, of the family Cicadellidæ, which attacks the foliage of roses, making the leaves pale and mottled;
rose-megachile, a species of leaf-cutting insect (
cf. rose-cutter bee);
rose plume, a species of moth (see
quot.);
rose sawfly, a hymenopterous insect which lays its eggs in rose-leaves. Also
rose-chafer.
| 1806 Shaw Gen. Zool. VI. i. 171 Aphis Rosæ or *Rose Aphis is very frequent during the summer months on the young shoots and buds of roses. |
| 1783 Latham Gen. Syn. Birds II. i. 3 Buffon asserts their fondness for the *Rose Beetle [scarabeus auratus]. 1884 Leisure Hour Jan. 48/1 The most expensive beetles are the Cetonias, or Rose-beetles, of the Eastern Archipelago and Africa. |
| 1800 Massachusetts Spy 1 Oct. 3/4 He suggests that the *Rose-bug is the pre-existing state of those worms. a 1817 Dwight Trav. New Eng., etc. (1821) II. 398 An insect..not unlike a rosebug in form, but in every respect handsomer. 1868 Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 87 The much-dreaded rose-bug, Macrodactylus subspinosus. 1916 W. P. Eaton Idyl of Twin Fires 207, I frequently pick rose bugs..before breakfast, very early, when they are still sleepy. |
| 1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without H. viii. (1868) 177 These cells are made of rose-leaves, and are the work of the *Rose-cutter Bee (Megachile Willoughbiella). |
| 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., *Rose-fly,..a peculiar species of fly found very frequently on rose bushes. 1855 Ogilvie Suppl., Rose-fly. |
| 1882 Garden 25 Nov. 469/1 Very nearly allied to the gall-flies of the Oak is the *Rose gall-fly. |
| 1863 S. R. Hole in Gardeners' Ann. 17 When all looks green and healthful, he will be searching for that worm i' th' bud, the *rose grub. |
| 1920 Wodehouse Damsel in Distress i. 10 The small, yellowish-white insect..sometimes called a *rose-hopper. |
| [1852 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New England Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 2) 199 There is another little leaf-hopper that..lives upon the leaves of rose-bushes. Ibid. 511/2 Rose-bush leaf-hopper.] 1890 Insect Life II. 340 Original figures are given of..the *Rose Leaf-hopper. 1939 Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 2) xvii. 585 The rose leafhopper and another common apple leafhopper, pass the winter in the egg stage in the bark. 1970 L. Hollis Roses x. 106 Rose leaf-hopper..sucks the sap and causes mottling to appear on the leaves. |
| 1882 Garden 27 May 368 *Rose maggots are unusually plentiful. |
| 1868 tr. Figuier's Insect World (1892) 366 *Rose Megachile (Megachile centuncularis). |
| 1832 J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & M. 231 The *Rose Plume (Pterophorus rhododactylus, Fabricius) appears in gardens, about roses. |
| 1840 Hereman Gardener's Libr. II. 169 Zaraca Fasciata, Red-bodied *Rose Saw-Fly. |
24. a. Special collocations in sense 20:
rose-aniline,
= rosaniline;
rose breccia (see
quot. and
breccia);
rose-comb, a flesh-coloured caruncle lying flat upon the head of certain fowls, as in the Sebright cock; also, a bird bearing a comb of this kind; also
attrib.; hence
rose-combed adj.;
rose copper (see
quot. 1706);
rose-ear, a dog's ear so hanging as to expose the flesh-coloured inner side;
rose fish, a scorpænoid fish,
esp. the Norway haddock,
Sebastes marinus, or the red-fish;
rose-garnet,
Min., a rose-red variety of garnet found in Mexico (
Encycl. Dict.);
rose glass, a rose-coloured kind of glass made in France (Knight);
rose-madder, the rose colour produced by madder dye or pigment;
† rose madrepore (see
quot.);
rose manganese,
Min., rhodonite;
rose-mole, a mark or mole of a reddish colour;
rose opal,
Min., a rose-hued opal occurring with quincite (
Encycl. Dict.);
rose pearl (see
quot.);
rose quartz,
Min., a translucent variety of quartz, of a rose-red colour;
rose sparus, a Mediterranean fish (see
quot.);
rose wing, (
a) a species of moth with rosy wings; (
b) a variety of pigeon.
| 1879 Webster Suppl., *Rose-aniline. |
| 1839 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 453/2 Antique *Rose Breccia. Clear red ground with little spots of rose and black, others white. |
| 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 52 The fleshy *rose comb of the golden Hamburgh terminating in a sharp point behind..is seen in no other variety of fowl. 1889 Cent. Dict. s.v. Comb, A rose comb..is best illustrated in the Hamburg fowls. 1927 Haldane & Huxley Animal Biol. ii. 68 The original pure-bred rose-comb stock gives nothing but rose-combs. Ibid. 69 The offspring will clearly be blue Andalusian.., with rose-combs. 1972 Country Life 16 Nov. 1265/1 Of the 11 [bantams] two were cockerels of rosecomb blood... One of the two rosecombs was supposed to be a hen. |
| 1885 Bazaar 30 Mar. 1265 Black *rosecombed bantams, bred from noted prize winners. |
| 1683 Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xvii. ¶1 *Rose Copper is commonly accounted the softest. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Rose-Copper, a Copper melted several times, and separated from its gross and earthy Parts. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 823 The reverberatory furnace generally employed..for refining rose copper. |
| 1883 G. Stables Our Friend the Dog vii. 61 *Rose-ear.—In this ear the tip turns downwards and backwards, and the inner side is exposed. |
| 1731 R. Hale Jrnl. 18 June in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1906) XLII. 223 Wee spy'd the Fin of a Whale..& Suppossing it to be a *Rose fish, ran forward to see it. 1855 Ogilvie Suppl., Rose-fish. 1888 Goode Amer. Fishes 257 The Rose-fish, Sebastes marinus, is conspicuous among cold-water fishes by its brilliant scarlet color. 1947 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 4 May b15/2 Boston showed a two-month catch of rosefish. 1975 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 9 Aug. 8/3 The Russians..pioneered in earlier years..such harvests as the rosefish catch off Labrador. |
| 1886 H. C. Standage Artists' Man. Pigments v. 52 Madder Lakes (Madder Carmine.., Lake or *Rose Madder). 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 252/3 Winsor & Newton's Oil Colors..Pink Madder, Rose Madder. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 773/1 Amongst the former [sc. natural colouring matters] may be named..rose-madder and the madder-lakes from the alizarin and allied bodies derived from the root of the ordinary madder plant Rubia tinctorum. 1933 H. Nicolson Diary 16 Mar. (1966) 143 They [sc. the Rocky Mountains] are rose-madder and blue. |
| 1799 Shaw Naturalist's Misc. X. pl. 383 *Rose Madrepore... This is one of the most elegant of the ramified Madrepores, being, when recent, of a beautiful rose-color. |
| 1856 Dana Rudim. Treat. Min. 72 Rhodonite (Manganese spar; *Rose manganese) is of a beautiful rose colour, inclining sometimes to violet. |
| 1877 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 69 Glory be to God for dappled things—..For *rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim. |
| 1872 L. P. Meredith Teeth 233 ‘*Rose Pearl’. This romantic name is given to a base of comparatively recent introduction..intended as a substitute for continuous gum. |
| 1819 Bakewell Introd. Min. II. 241 *Rose-quartz. 1844 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VII. 77/2 Red granite, hornblende and rose quartz,..being exceedingly abundant. |
| 1803 Shaw Gen. Zool. IV. ii. 407 *Rose sparus... Size and shape of a Perch: colour most beautiful rose-red. |
| 1832 J. Rennie Consp. Butterfl. & M. 46 The *Rose Wing (Callimorpha rosea, Latreille) appears [at] the end of June and beginning of July. c 1879 L. Wright Pigeon Keeper x. 127 In the neighbourhood of Birmingham many fanciers prefer the Mottle..with no other marking than the mottled shoulder: these are often called Rosewings. |
b. In names of birds:
rose cockatoo, the rose-breasted cockatoo;
rose-finch, a small European or Asian finch belonging to the genus
Carpodacus, the males of which have red or pink plumage;
rose fly-catcher, an American rose-coloured fly-catching warbler, as
Cardellina rubra or
C. rubrifrons (
Cent. Dict.); so
rose fly-catching warbler;
rose linnet,
lintie, (
a) the red-breasted linnet; (
b) the redpole;
rose ouzel, the rose-coloured ouzel;
rose parrakeet,
= nonpareil 5 b (
Encycl. Dict. 1886,
s.v. Parrakeet);
rose pastor, the rose ouzel;
rose pigeon (see
quot.);
rose starling, the rose-coloured ouzel;
rose tanager,
warbler (see
quots.).
| 1899 W. T. Greene Cage-birds 78 The *Rose, or Rosy-breasted Cockatoo is a common Australian species, that is often palmed off on the unwary as a ‘Grey Parrot’. |
| 1863 T. C. Jerdon Birds India II. 399 The *Rose⁓finch is found as a cold weather visitant throughout the greater part of India. 1890 E. W. Oates Fauna Brit. India: Birds II. 212 The genus Propasser belongs to the Rose-finches, the males of which are characterized..by rose-coloured plumage. 1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles I. 175 The eastern races of the rosefinch also winter in India. |
| 1884 Coues N. Amer. Birds 314 Cardellina,..*Rose Fly-Catching Warblers. |
| 1825 Jamieson, *Rose-lintie, the red-breasted linnet. 1827 Fleming Brit. Anim. 85 Fringilla Linaria, Rose Linnet. 1876 Smiles Sc. Nat. xiii. 260 The Reed Warbler, the Rose Linnet, the Twite..bred in suitable localities round the loch. |
| 1831 Rennie Montagu's Ornith. Dict. 436 *Rose ouzel (Pastor roseus). 1887 A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 214 In England it [the Rose-coloured Pastor] has been styled the ‘Rose Ouzel’. |
| 1841 Selby in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. 253 *Rose-pastor, killed at Tweedmouth. |
| 1819 Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. i. 42 *Rose pigeon (Columba miniata)..; the under parts of the body of a hoary red. |
| 1857 Zoologist XV. 5669 A young *rose-starling flew..into the room. |
| 1884 Coues N. Amer. Birds 318 P[yranga] æstiva... *Rose Tanager. Summer Red-Bird. |
| 1889 Cent. Dict. s.v. Cardellina, C. rubra is the *rose warbler, entirely red;..found in Texas and southward. |
▪ II. rose, v.1 (
rəʊz)
[f. rose n.; in sense 4 after F. roser.] † 1. intr. To blossom like a rose.
Obs.—1 The text has
ryseth, but the rime requires
roseth.
| 14.. Lydg. Goodly Ballad in Thynne Chaucer (1532) 234 b, Myn herte welkeneth thus sone, anon it roseth; Now hotte, nowe colde, and efte in feruence. |
2. a. trans. To colour like a rose; to make rosy. Usually in
pa. pple.| 1610 G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. i. xvli, Ros'd all in lively crimsin ar thy cheeks. 1614 Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iv. 372 Her ruddy round Cheeks seem'd to be composed Of Roses Lillied, or of Lillies Rosed. 1773 Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 512 When once set free again,..We can be ros'd and lilly'd in a minute. 1847 Tennyson Princ. vi. 324 She turn'd; the very nape of her white neck Was rosed with indignation. 1876 T. Hardy Ethelberta xxxi, Picotee's face was rosed over with the brilliance of some excitement. |
b. intr. To become rosy; to blush.
rare—1.
| 1922 Hardy Late Lyrics 22 You grew elate, And rosed, as maidens can, For a brief span. |
3. trans. To perfume with rose-scent.
| 1875 Tennyson Q. Mary iii. v, It shall be all my study for one hour To rose and lavender my horsiness. |
4. To treat (wool, etc.) with a chemical mixture in order to impart a rosy tint.
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 791 The wool is then removed and washed. It must be rosed the following day. |
▪ III. rose, v.2 dial. (See
quots. and
ruse v.)
| 1825 J. Jennings Dial. W. Eng., To Rose, to drop out from the pod, or other seed vessel, when the seeds are over-ripe. 1847 Halliw. s.v., When the upper part of a quarry or well falls in, it is said to rose in. |
▪ IV. rose pa. tense
rise v.;
obs. f. roose.