Cabbage rose, China rose, etc. See under Cabbage, China, etc. -- Corn
rose (Bot.) See Corn poppy, under Corn. -- Infantile rose (Med.), a
variety of roseola. -- Jamaica rose. (Bot.) See under Jamaica. -- Rose
acacia (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub (Robinia hispida) with
handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms. -- Rose aniline. (Chem.)
Same as Rosaniline. -- Rose apple (Bot.), the fruit of the tropical
myrtaceous tree Eugenia Jambos. It is an edible berry an inch or more
in diameter, and is said to have a very strong roselike perfume. --
Rose beetle. (Zoöl.) (a) A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle
(Macrodactylus subspinosus), which eats the leaves of various plants,
and is often very injurious to rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines,
etc. Called also rose bug, and rose chafer. (b) The European chafer. --
Rose bug. (Zoöl.) same as Rose beetle, Rose chafer. -- Rose burner, a
kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped flame. -- Rose camphor
(Chem.), a solid odorless substance which separates from rose oil. --
Rose campion. (Bot.) See under Campion. -- Rose catarrh (Med.), rose
cold. -- Rose chafer. (Zoöl.) (a) A common European beetle (Cetonia
aurata) which is often very injurious to rosebushes; -- called also
rose beetle, and rose fly. (b) The rose beetle (a). -- Rose cold
(Med.), a variety of hay fever, sometimes attributed to the inhalation
of the effluvia of roses. See Hay fever, under Hay. -- Rose color, the
color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful hue or appearance; fancied
beauty, attractiveness, or promise. <! p. 1252 !> -- Rose de Pompadour,
Rose du Barry, names succesively given to a delicate rose color used on
Sèvres porcelain. -- Rose diamond, a diamond, one side of which is
flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two
ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top. Cf. Brilliant, n.
-- Rose ear. See under Ear. -- Rose elder (Bot.), the Guelder-rose. --
Rose engine, a machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe, by which a
surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with a variety of curved
lines. Craig. -- Rose family (Bot.) the Roseceæ. See Rosaceous. -- Rose
fever (Med.), rose cold. -- Rose fly (Zoöl.), a rose betle, or rose
chafer. -- Rose gall (Zoöl.), any gall found on rosebushes. See
Bedeguar. -- Rose knot, a ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to
resemble a rose; a rosette. -- Rose lake, Rose madder, a rich tint
prepared from lac and madder precipitated on an earthy basis. Fairholt.
-- Rose mallow. (Bot.) (a) A name of several malvaceous plants of the
genus Hibiscus, with large rose-colored flowers. (b) the hollyhock. --
Rose nail, a nail with a convex, faceted head. -- Rose noble, an
ancient English gold coin, stamped with the figure of a rose, first
struck in the reign of Edward III., and current at 6s. 8d. Sir W.
Scott. -- Rose of China. (Bot.) See China rose (b), under China. --
Rose of Jericho (Bot.), a Syrian cruciferous plant (Anastatica
Hierochuntica) which rolls up when dry, and expands again when
moistened; -- called also resurrection plant. - - Rose of Sharon
(Bot.), an ornamental malvaceous shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus). In the
Bible the name is used for some flower not yet identified, perhaps a
Narcissus, or possibly the great lotus flower. -- Rose oil (Chem.), the
yellow essential oil extracted from various species of rose blossoms,
and forming the chief part of attar of roses. -- Rose pink, a pigment
of a rose color, made by dyeing chalk or whiting with a decoction of
Brazil wood and alum; also, the color of the pigment. -- Rose quartz
(Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose- red. -- Rose rash. (Med.)
Same as Roseola. -- Rose slug (Zoöl.), the small green larva of a black
sawfly (Selandria rosæ). These larvæ feed in groups on the parenchyma
of the leaves of rosebushes, and are often abundant and very
destructive. -- Rose window (Arch.), a circular window filled with
ornamental tracery. Called also Catherine wheel, and marigold window.
Cf. wheel window, under Wheel. -- Summer rose (Med.), a variety of
roseola. See Roseola. -- Under the rose [a translation of L. sub rosa],
in secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; -- the rose
being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and hung up at
entertainments as a token that nothing there said was to be divulged.
-- Wars of the Roses (Eng. Hist.), feuds between the Houses of York and
Lancaster, the white rose being the badge of the House of York, and the
red rose of the House of Lancaster.
Rose (?), v. t. 1. To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.
[Poetic] "A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty."
Shak.