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Juice of roses mixed with honey. Simmonds.

ctitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale o…

A romantic story in verse; as, the "Romaunt of the Rose." O, hearken, loving hearts and bold, Unto my wild romaunt. Mrs. Browning.

lumpness. [R.] High-kirtled for the chase, and what was shown Of maiden rondure, like the rose half-blown. Lowell.

ng of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth. The flowery roof Showered roses, which the morn repaired. Milton.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceæ) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service tress, and quinces.

A cultivator of roses.

A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. "Thick rosaries of scented thorn." Tennyson.

Decorated with roses, or with the color of roses.

A rosebush; roses, collectively. [Obs.] Crowned with a garland of sweet rosier. Spenser.

Rosemary. [Obs.] Spenser. "Biting on anise seed and rosmarine." Bp. Hall.

Arranged in little roselike clusters; -- said of leaves and bracts.

Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses. A smile that glowed Celestial rosy-red, love's proper hue. Milton. While blooming youth and gay delight Sit thy rosy cheeks confessed. Prior.

A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.

Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Rusty words." Piers Plowman.

In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate.

acid obtained, as a white amorphous gummy mass, by the oxidation of mannite, glucose, sucrose, etc.

arinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).

ot known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.

ating, an acid obtained as a dark amorphous substance by the long-continued boiling of sucrose with very dilute sulphuric acid. It resembles humic acid. [Written also sacculmic.]