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rlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.

in the east and West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for making tarts and jelly and an acid drink.

[So named from its first describer, J. C. Rosenmüller, a German anatomist.] (Anat.) The parovarium.

Loose; light. [Obs.] Mortimer.

Pertaining to a rostellum.

Having a rostellum, or small beak; terminating in a beak.

Having the form of a rostellum, or small beak.

A small beaklike process or extension of some part; a small rostrum; as, the rostellum of the stigma of violets, or of the operculum of many mosses; the rostellum on the head of a tapeworm.

Any one of numerous species of small, polished, brightcolored gastropods of the genus Rotella, native of tropical seas.

A red color used in enameling. Weale.

An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.

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

A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil.

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

A private circle or assembly at a private house; a circle. [Obs.] Dryden.

One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.

Rocky. [Obs.] "This rupellary nidary." Evelyn.

A genus of tubiculous annelids having a circle of plumose gills around head.

Pertaining to the doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.

The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.