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ub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere

Light land; rosland. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.

Loose; light. [Obs.] Mortimer.

To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer.

y be cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.

A small mortar.

or to fill up between the facing courses of walls. Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

to poverty or bankruptcy; to impair seriously; to damage essentially; to overthrow. this mortal house I'll ruin. Shak. By thee raised, I ruin all my foes. Milton. The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. Franklin. By the fireside there are old men seated, Seeling ruined cities in the ashes. Longfellow.…

phia to New York; the memory of man runneth not the contrary. She saw with joy the line immortal run, Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son. Pope.

ad or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

acks are made of; coarse cloth; anciently, a cloth or garment worn in mourning, distress, mortification, or penitence. Gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. 2 Sam. iii. 31. Thus with sackcloth I invest my woe. Sandys.

That which relates to a sacrament. Bp. Morton.

] His hand, more sad than lump of lead. Spenser. Chalky lands are naturally cold and sad. Mortimer.

bs.] Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. Mortimer.

To mangle. [Obs.] Mortimer.

a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.

lace, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine. [Obs.] But laid them up in immortial scrine. Spenser.

Same as Sea mud. Mortimer.

To sift; to bolt. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Cerecloth. Mortimer.