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ming before others, or before the usual time; early. [Obs. or Poetic] Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies. Milton.

Slashed or striped in patterns. [Obs.] "Two Provincial roses on my razed shoes." Shak.

To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror. They rose with fear, . . . Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest. Dryden.

t. "Fresh flowers, white and reede." Chaucer. Your color, I warrant you, is as red as any rose. Shak.

The rosefish.

emend; to revise. [R.] The common profit could she redress. Chaucer. In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon. Milton. Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. A. Hamilton.

To remove. [Prov.Eng.] Grose. Tennyson.

Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example.

To suppress; to repel. [Obs.] Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose. Milton.

kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation.

Rendering respect; respectful; regardful. [Obs.] With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands. Chapman. With thy equals familiar, yet respective. Lord Burleigh.

nest, but revive and expand again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to the rose of Jericho. See under Rose.

The continued stem or midrib of a pinnately compound leaf, as in a rose leaf or a fern.

The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.

The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.

Manganese carbonate, a rose-red mineral sometimes occuring crystallized, but generally massive with rhombohedral cleavage like calcite; -- called also dialogite.

A rose encrinite.

, often having handsome evergreen leaves, and remarkable for the beauty of their flowers; rosebay.

Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.

To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.