Ro*sac"ic (?), a. [See Rosaceous.] (Old med. Chem.) Pertaining to, or
designating, an acid (called also lithic acid) found in certain red
precipitates of urine. See Uric. [Obs.]
Ro*sal"gar (?), n. realgar. [Obs.] chaucer.
||Ro*sa"li*a (?), n. [Cf. F. rosalie.] (Mus.) A form of melody in which
||a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or
||half step higher; a melodic sequence.
Ros*an"i*line (? or ?), n. [Rose + aniline.] (Chem.) A complex
nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline
and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red
salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled
aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of
the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline
proper.
Ro*sa"ri*an (?), n. A cultivator of roses.
Ro"sa*ry (?), n.; pl. Rosaries (#). [LL. rosarium a string of beads, L.
rosarium a place planted with roses, rosa a rose: cf. F. rosaire. See
Rose.] 1. A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. "Thick rosaries of
scented thorn." Tennyson.
2. (R.C.Ch.) A series of prayers (see Note below) arranged to be
recited in order, on beads; also, a string of beads by which the
prayers are counted.
His idolized book, and the whole rosary of his prayers.
Milton.
A rosary consists of fifteen decades. Each decade contains ten Ave
Marias marked by small beads, preceded by a Paternoster, marked by a
larger bead, and concluded by a Gloria Patri. Five decades make a
chaplet, a third part of the rosary. Bp. Fitzpatrick.
3. A chapelet; a garland; a series or collection, as of beautiful
thoughts or of literary selections.
Every day propound to yourself a rosary or chaplet of good works to
present to God at night.
Jer. Taylor.
4. A coin bearing the figure of a rose, fraudulently circulated in
Ireland in the 13th century for a penny.
Rosary shell (Zoöl.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus
Monodonta. They are top-shaped, bright-colored and pearly.
Ros"cid (?), a. [L. roscidus, fr. ros, roris, dew.] Containing, or
consisting of, dew; dewy. [R.] Bacon.
Ros"coe*lite (?), n. [From an English chemist, H.E. Roscoe + -lite.]
(Min.) A green micaceous mineral occurring in minute scales. It is
essentially a silicate of aluminia and potash containing vanadium.
Rose (?), imp. of Rise.
Rose, n. [AS. rose, L. rosa, probably akin to Gr. &?;, Armor. vard,
OPer. vareda; and perhaps to E. wort: cf. F. rose, from the Latin. Cf.
Copperas, Rhododendron.] 1. A flower and shrub of any species of the
genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the
morthern hemispere
Roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually prickly stems. The
flowers are large, and in the wild state have five petals of a color
varying from deep pink to white, or sometimes yellow. By cultivation
and hybridizing the number of petals is greatly increased and the
natural perfume enhanced. In this way many distinct classes of roses
have been formed, as the Banksia, Baurbon, Boursalt, China, Noisette,
hybrid perpetual, etc., with multitudes of varieties in nearly every
class.
2. A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp.
one worn on a shoe. Sha.