rose¹ /rōz/

1. The flower of any species of the genus Rosa, national emblem of England
2. A shrub bearing it, mostly prickly, with white, yellow, pink, orange, or red flowers, numerous stamens and carpels, and achenes enclosed in the receptacle
3. Extended to various flowers or plants in some way resembling the true rose (see eg guelder rose, rock rose under rock¹)
4. A paragon
5. A rosette, esp on a shoe
6. A rose-cut stone
7. A rose window
8. A perforated nozzle
9. A circular moulding from which eg a door-handle projects
10. A circular fitting in a ceiling from which an electric light flex hangs
11. The typical colour of the rose, pink or light crimson
12. (in pl) (in white-skinned peoples) the pink glow of the cheeks in health
13. Erysipelas

1. Of, for or like the rose or roses
2. Rose-coloured

To make like a rose, in colour or scent

roseal /rōˈzi-əl/ adjective

Roselike

rōˈseate /-zi-it or -zi-āt/ adjective

1. Rosy
2. Rose-scented
3. Of roses
4. Unduly favourable or sanguine

rosed adjective

1. Flushed (Shakespeare)
2. Having a rose or roses

roseˈless adjective

roseˈlike adjective

rōˈsery noun

A rose garden (see rosary)

rosier /rōˈzhər/ (Fr rosier) or (Spenser) rosiere /rō-zi-ārˈ, -ērˈ/ noun

A rose tree or bush

rōˈsily adverb

rōˈsiness noun

rōˈsy adjective (rōˈsier; rōˈsiest)

1. Of or covered in roses
2. Roselike
3. Rose-red
4. Blooming
5. Blushing
6. Bright
7. Hopeful
8. Promising

Wine

To redden

rose apple noun

1. An East Indian tree of the clove genus
2. Its edible fruit

roseˈbay noun

1. The oleander (also called rosebay laurel or rose-laurel)
2. Any rhododendron (N American)

rosebay willowherb noun

A willowherb common where woods have been felled or land cleared by fire (also called fireweed)

rose beetle noun

1. The rose chafer
2. The rose bug

roseˈbowl noun

An ornamental bowl for cut flowers

roseˈbud noun

rose bug noun

An American beetle that eats roses

roseˈbush noun

rose campion noun

A garden species of campion (Lychnis coronaria)

rose chafer noun

A beetle (Cetonia aurata) that eats roses

roseˈ-cheeked adjective

rose colour noun

Pink

roseˈ-coloured adjective

1. Pink
2. Seeing or representing things in too favourable a light

rose comb noun

1. A fowl's low red crest
2. A fowl with such a crest

roseˈ-combed adjective

rose cross noun

1. A cross within a circle
2. A Rosicrucian

roseˈ-cut adjective

(of a gem) cut in nearly hemispherical form, with flat base and many small facets rising to a low point above

rose diamond noun

A rose-cut diamond

rose drop noun

1. A rose-flavoured sweet
2. A red eruption on the nose

rose elder noun

The guelder-rose

rose engine noun

A lathe attachment for carving swirling patterns

roseˈfinch noun

Any of various finches of the genus Carpodacus found in Europe and Asia, the males more or less covered with red or pink plumage, especially Carpodus erythrinus, the common rosefinch

roseˈfish noun

The bergylt

rose garden noun

rose geranium noun

A pelargonium (Pelargonium graveolens) with small pink flowers and fragrant leaves

roseˈhip noun

The fruit of the rose

roseˈ-hued adjective (archaic)

Rose-coloured

rose knot noun

A rosette of ribbon, etc

rose laurel noun

Oleander

rose leaf noun

1. The leaf of a rose
2. Usu a rose-petal

roseˈ-lipped adjective

Having red lips

rose madder noun

A pale pink colour, made from madder pigment

roseˈmaling noun

Painting or carving furniture in floral motifs

rose mallow noun

1. Hollyhock
2. Hibiscus

rose noble noun

An old English gold coin with the figure of a rose

rose of Jericho noun

A cruciferous plant (Anastatica hierochuntica) of N Africa and Syria, that curls in a ball in drought

rose of Sharon noun

1. (in the Bible, Song of Solomon) prob a narcissus
2. Now applied to a species of hibiscus, and to a species of Hypericum

rose oil noun

A fragrant oil expressed from rose petals

roseˈ-pink adjective

1. Rose-coloured
2. Sentimental

noun

1. A pink colour
2. A pink pigment

rose quartz noun

A rose-coloured quartz

rose rash noun

Roseola

roseˈ-red adjective

Red as a rose

roseˈroot noun

A stonecrop (Sedum rosea) with rose-scented root

roseˈ-tinted adjective

Rose-coloured (lit and figurative)

rose topaz noun

A topaz coloured pink by heat

rose tree noun

A standard rose

roseˈwater noun

Water distilled from rose petals

adjective

1. Sentimental
2. Superfine
3. Comfortable

rose window noun

A round window with tracery of radiating compartments

roseˈwood noun

A valuable heavy dark-coloured wood of many trees, esp Brazilian and Indian species of Dalbergia (family Papilionaceae), said to smell of roses when fresh-cut

rosewood oil noun

Oil of rhodium

roˈsy-bosˈomed adjective

roˈsy-cheeked adjective

roˈsy-colˈoured adjective

rosy cross noun

The emblem of the Rosicrucians

rosy drop noun

Rose drop

rosy finch noun

Any of a genus (Leucosticte) of finches of western N America and E Asia with bright pink tinted plumage

roˈsy-fingˈered adjective

Homer's favourite epithet (rhododaktylos) of the dawn

roˈsy-footˈed adjective

all roses see roses all the way below.

bed of roses see under bed¹

come out (or up) smelling of roses

To emerge from a series of events, etc seemingly innocent, with image untainted or undamaged

look or see through rose-coloured (or rose-tinted or rosy) spectacles or glasses

To view matters over-optimistically

roses all the way or all roses

1. Pleasant, happy
2. Without difficulties, problems, etc

under the rose

1. In confidence
2. Privately

Wars of the Roses

A disastrous dynastic struggle in England (1455–85) between the Houses of Lancaster and York, from their respective emblems, the red and the white rose

rose² pat of rise

rosé /rōˈzā/

A pinkish table wine produced either by removing red grape skins, or by mixing red and white wines, early in fermentation (cf red wine under red¹)

rise /rīz/

1. To get up
2. To become erect, stand up
3. To come back to life
4. To become hostile
5. To revolt (often with up)
6. To close a session
7. To break up camp
8. To raise a siege
9. To move upward
10. To come up to the surface
11. To fly up from the ground
12. To come above the horizon
13. To grow upward
14. To advance in rank, fortune, etc
15. To swell (medicine)
16. (of dough) to swell under the action of yeast
17. To increase
18. To increase in price
19. To become more acute in pitch
20. To be excited
21. To be cheered
22. To come into view, notice or consciousness
23. To spring up
24. To take origin
25. To have source
26. To come into being
27. To extend upward
28. To tower
29. To slope up
30. To come to hand, chance to come
31. To respond (eg to provocation, or to a challenging situation)
32. To excavate upward
33. To feel nausea (also figurative)

1. To cause to rise
2. To surmount (US)
3. To raise, view better by nearing (nautical)

1. Rising
2. Ascent
3. A coming up to the surface, as that of a fish
4. The sport of making a butt of someone by deception
5. Increase in height
6. Vertical difference or amount of elevation or rising
7. Increase of salary or price, etc
8. An upward slope
9. A sharpening of pitch
10. Source, origin
11. Occasion (obsolete)
12. A response, esp an angry or excited one
13. The riser of a step
14. A shaft excavated from below

rīsˈer noun

1. A person who rises, esp from bed
2. That which rises
3. The upright portion of a step
4. A vertical pipe, eg in a building or an oil rig

rīsˈing noun

1. The action or process of the verb in any sense
2. A revolt
3. A prominence
4. A swelling
5. A hill

1. Ascending
2. Increasing
3. Coming above the horizon
4. Advancing
5. Growing up
6. Approaching the age of
7. Quite as much as (US)

rising damp noun

Wetness rising through bricks and mortar in a wall

rising tide noun (figurative)

An increase in the frequency or occurrence of a specified thing, a growing trend or tendency

give rise to

To cause, bring about

on the rise

In process of rising, esp in price

rise above

To remain unaffected, unlimited or unconstrained by

rise and shine

A facetiously cheerful invitation or instruction to get out of bed briskly, esp in the morning

rise from the ranks

1. To work one's way up from private soldier to commissioned officer
2. To become a self-made man or woman

rise to it or rise to the bait (figurative, from fishing)

To take the lure

rise to the occasion

To prove equal to an emergency

take a rise out of

To lure into reacting to provocation, or loosely, to make sport of

take rise

To originate

the rise of (US)

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