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A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. Sha.

Water tinctured with roses by distillation.

Having the color of a pink rose; rose-pink; of a delicate pink color.

e formed of triangular facets in rows; -- said of diamonds and other precious stones. See Rose diamond, under Rose. Cf. Brilliant, n.

Having a pink color like that of the rose, or like the pigment called rose pink. See Rose pink, under Rose.

Red as a rose; specifically (Zoöl.), of a pure purplish red color. Chaucer.

veral English gold coins struck in different reigns and having having different values; a rose noble.

Having the odor of rose water; hence, affectedly nice or delicate; sentimental. "Rose-water philantropy." Carlyle.

resembling a rose in smell or color. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.

the oleander. [Obs.]

The flower of a rose before it opens, or when but partially open.

The bush or shrub which bears roses.

A lozenge having a rose flavor.

podacus, and Propasser, and allied genera, in which the male is more or less colored with rose red.

A large marine scorpænoid food fish (Sebastes marinus) found on the northern coasts of Europe and America. called also red perch, hemdurgan, Norway haddok, and also, erroneously, snapper, bream, and bergylt.

See Rose, n., 4.

See Magenta.

A hydrous arsenite of cobalt, occuring in small red crystals, allied to erythrite.

A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.