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alities; 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 cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anæsthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In…

so group. The term is sometimes loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrosyl; as, nitrosylic acid.

Of or pertaining to prose; like prose.

A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism.

The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.

s, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

s of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.

To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

To infect with leprosy. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To grow red; to have a red or rosy color. The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, But stayed, and made the western welkin blush. Shak.

Showing blushes; rosy red; having a warm and delicate color like some roses and other flowers; blooming; ruddy; roseate. The dappled pink and blushing rose. Prior.

Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy. [R.] "A blushy color." Harvey.

s three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. Braid your locks with rosy twine. Milton.

teristics of health, vigor, and comeliness, combined with a gay, lively manner; stout and rosy; jolly; frolicsome. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. A parcel of buxom bonny dames, that were laughing, singing, dancing, and as merry as the day was long. Tatler. -- Bux"om*ly, adv. -- Bux"om*ness, n…

The natural color of flesh; rosy pink. Her complexion of the delicate carnation. Ld. Lytton.

tion which was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, in relation to this, the prosyllogism.

all the red or purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeæ of many authors; -- so called from the rosy or florid color of most of the species.