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[Eng.rosy; -ly.] With a red or killed it for the sake of its teeth, which were in high estimation for the handles of swords, daggers, and knives. rosy glow. "The white Olympus peaks Rosily brighten, and the soothed gods smile." Matthew Arnold: Empedocles on Etna , ii. rõş-in, s. [A doublet of resin.] 1. Resin with a little water remaining after nearly all the oil has been distilled off. 2. Resin with all the water distilled away. The solid residuum is then black, and is a compound of several hydrocarbons. It is called colophane or fiddler's rosin, and is applied to the hair of violin, "And greedy rosmarines with visages deforme." Spenser. F. Q. , II. xii. 24. ros-ma-ri-ni-dæ, s. pl . [Latin rosmarin(us); fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ .] Bot .: A family of Monardeæ. ros-ma-ri-nūs, s. [ROSEMARY.] Bot.: The typical genus of Rosmarinidæ (q. v.). Calyx two-lipped, stamens two. IMG:content-0755.png:[blocks in formation] and China; range, thirty fathoms. Shell with elongated spire; whorls numerous, flat; canals long, the posterior one running up the spire; outer lip expanded (enormously so, in some of the fo il IMG:content-0756.png:[blocks in formation] species), with a single sinus, close to the beak. the Platan is tide and the Ziphioid whales, the 2. Palæont.: From the Lower Greensand to the London Clay, in which formation the best known Min.: A variety of beryl (q. v.), regarded as dis- tinct by the describer, Grattarola because of its crystal habit, optical characters, and variation in chemical composition. ros-thorn-ite, s. [After Herr Franz von Ros thorne; suff. -ite ( Min ).] Min.: A hydrocarbon occurring in lenticular ma es in coal, at Sonnberge, Carinthia. Specific gravity, 1076; luster, greasy; color, brown, in thin 2. A species of the finest liqueurs or creams. rōş-ol-ic, a . [Lat.rosa: ol(eum), and Eng. suff. splinters wine-yellow. Composition: C24H400. -ic.] Derived from rosaniline. IMG:content-0757.png:[blocks in formation] *ros-tle, s . [ROSTEL.) The beak of a ship. "Vectis rostratus , a barre or lever with an iron point or end; a rostle." -Nomenclator . ros tral, adj . [Lat. rostral is , from rostrum =a beak; Fr. & Sp. rostral ; Ital. rostrale .] 1. Pertaining to or resembling a rostrum. 2. Pertaining to the beak or on out of any animal. rostral-column, s . Roman Antiq.: A column devoted to the celebra- tion of naval triumphs: it was ornamented with the rostra or prows of ships. rostral-crown, s. A naval crown (q. v.). "The other, Commerce, wore a rostral crown upon her head."- Tatter , No. 161. ros-trate, ros-trated, adj . [Lat. rostratus, from rostrum =a beak.] "An hundred and ten rostrated gallies of the fleet of Mithridates."-Arbuthnot: On Coins . 2. Bot . & Zool .: Having a rostrum; beaked. ros-tri-form, adj . [Lat. rostrum a beak, and form a =form.] Having the form of a beak. ros-tru-lŭm ( pl . ros-tru-la), s. [Mod. Lat., dim in. from Lat. rostrum (q. v.).] 2. A scaffold or elevated platform in the Forum at Rome, from which public orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, ., were delivered; so called from the rostra or beaks of ships with which it was ornamented. "Myself will mount the rostrum in his favor." Add is on: Cato , ii. L 3. A pulpit, platform, or elevated place from which a speaker, as a preacher, an auctioneer, ., addre es his audience. rōş-ỹ, *ros-ie, a. [Eng. ros(e); -y.] I. Literally : Path .: Carbuncled face, Acne rosacea . rosy feather-star, s . [COMATULA.] rosy-fingered, a . Having rosy fingers. (Imi tated from Homer's favorite epithet for the dawn.) "Nor did the rosy - finger'd morn arise, And shed her sacred light along the skies." Pope . Homer's Ody ey, xiii. 21 IMG:content-0758.png:[blocks in formation] "What I loved, and long must I ve, Like common earth can rot." IMG:content-0759.png:[blocks in formation] disease. 2. Fig.: Nonsense, trash, bosh. ( Slang.) II. Technically: "His cattle must of rot and murren die." Milton. P. L., xii. 179. 2. Veg . Pathol.: [DRY-ROT.] (1) Knife - grinder's rot : [KNIFE-GRINDER.] (2) White - rot : [HYDRO COTYLE.]