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nts. -- Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus umbellatus), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.

To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! Tennyson.

To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle. His habit or flustering himself daily with claret. Macaulay.

Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.

ut oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. The Graces love to weave the rose. Moore. The Loves delighted, and the Graces played. Prior…

Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day. Lo! where the rosy-blosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear. Gray.

ial solemnities. Till Hymen brought his love-delighted hour, There dwelt no joy in Eden's rosy bower. Campbell.

itself is not isolated in the free state except as a solution in water; -- called also nitrosylic acid.

once. And Jesus . . . touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Matt. viii. 3.

Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] Holland.

A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obs.]

A person affected with leprosy.

Affected or tainted with leprosy.

To affect with leprosy.

Leprosy.

Leprosy.[Obs.] Wyclif.

Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy. "His hand was leprous as snow." Ex. iv. 6.

Leprosy. [Obs.] Holland.

er redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite. Green linnet (Zoöl.), the European green finch.

Leprosy. [Obs.] R. of Brunne.