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e 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.

producing smooth-faced fabric in which the warp interlaces with the filling at points distributed over the surface.

An artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an order. They are distributed among several orders by modern ornithologists.

Tribute. [R.] "Seizing scatt and treasure." Longfellow.

d by virtue of a being's own nature, and independent of any other being or cause; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Blackmore.

Hence, to bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with up; formerly with in. Bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner. Shak. Some part he roasts, then serves it up so dressed. Dryde.

To attribute sex to.

To part among two or more; to distribute in portions; to divide. Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger. Swift.

One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer.

throw shells or bombs upon or into; to bombard; as, to shell a town. To shell out, to distribute freely; to bring out or pay, as money. [Colloq.]

To divide; to distribute; to apportion. [Obs.] To which God of his bounty would shift Crowns two of flowers well smelling. Chaucer.

To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in Shak. Cshowers down greatness on his friends. Addison.

rivance to size articles, or to determine their size by a standard, or to separate and distribute them according to size.

To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. Pope.

An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.

A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as…

; the specific distinction between virtue and vice. Specific difference is that primary attribute which distinguishes each species from one another. I. Watts.

e theory or practice of regarding public and their emoluments as so much plunder to be distributed among their active partisans by those who are chosen to responsible offices of administration.

One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.

A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.