rosiness, rosyness

[Eng. rosy; -ne .] The quality or state of being rosy. "The fair morn breaks through her rosyne ." Davenant: Gondibert, iii. 1. rõş-in-ỹ, adj. [Eng. rosin; -y.] Resembling rosin; containing or consisting of rosin. rõş-ite, s. [Eng. ros (e); suff. -ite ( Min.); Ger. rosit.] IMG:content-0754.png:[blocks in formation] mal is called Ro mar) as "dem sü en grasz." Gesner has simply "gramine pascitur." He notes that Germans living on the seaboard call it ros tinger , that in Moscovy or Scythian Hungary, not far from the source of the Tanais, it is called morsz ; and that come believe the Modern Lat. ros mar us to be formed from a (M. H.) Ger. rusóz , "which seems to have been coined to expre the impetus and rushing sound with which the animal moves through the water.] Zool.: The Walrus (q. v.). At the time Spenser wrote little was known of this animal, but Gesner ( Hist . Anima . , iv. 249), to whom Spenser is in debted, was sufficiently well informed to point out that the picture given of it in Magnus' book was incorrect, both as to the Rosmarine. (From Gesner, loc. cit.) feet and the tusks, though he quotes Magnus' statement that the animal was as big as an elephant, that it climbed up the rocks on the seashore by the aid of its teeth, and that when it fell asleep after grazing, the fishermen attacked and