any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
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pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
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a dusty pink color
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of something having a dusty purplish pink color
<adj.all> the roseate glow of dawn
Rise \Rise\ (r[imac]z), v. i. [imp. {Rose} (r[=o]z); p. p. {Risen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rising}.] [AS. r[=i]san; akin to OS. r[=i]san, D. rijzen, OHG. r[=i]san to rise, fall, Icel. r[=i]sa, Goth. urreisan, G. reise journey. CF. {Arise}, {Raise}, {Rear}, v.] 1. To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait. (b) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like. (c) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air. (d) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet. (e) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer. (f) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall. (g) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early.
He that would thrive, must rise by five. --Old Proverb. (h) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea. (i) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. ``A rising ground.'' --Dryden. (j) To retire; to give up a siege.
He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone. --Knolles. (k) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
2. To have the aspect or the effect of rising. Specifically:
(a) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like. ``He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good.'' --Matt. v. 45. (b) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore. (c) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower. (d) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs.
A scepter shall rise out of Israel. --Num. xxiv. 17.
Honor and shame from no condition rise. --Pope.
3. To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. Specifically: (a) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion. ``High winde . . . began to rise, high passions -- anger, hate.'' --Milton. (b) To become of higher value; to increase in price.
Bullion is risen to six shillings . . . the ounce. --Locke. (c) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like. (d) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat. (e) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice. (f) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
4. In various figurative senses. Specifically: (a) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
At our heels all hell should rise With blackest insurrection. --Milton.
No more shall nation against nation rise. --Pope. (b) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. --Shak. (c) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest. (d) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures. --Spectator. (e) To come; to offer itself.
There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book. --Spenser.
5. To ascend from the grave; to come to life.
But now is Christ risen from the dead. --1. Cor. xv. 20.
6. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.
It was near nine . . . before the House rose. --Macaulay.
7. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
8. (Print.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.
Syn: To arise; mount; ascend; climb; scale.
Usage: {Rise}, {Appreciate}. Some in America use the word appreciate for ``rise in value;'' as, stocks appreciate, money appreciates, etc. This use is not unknown in England, but it is less common there. It is undesirable, because rise sufficiently expresses the idea, and appreciate has its own distinctive meaning, which ought not to be confused with one so entirely different.
Rose \Rose\, imp. of {Rise}.
Rose \Rose\, n. [AS. rose, L. rosa, probably akin to Gr. ?, Armor. vard, OPer. vareda; and perhaps to E. wort: cf. F. rose, from the Latin. Cf. {Copperas}, {Rhododendron}.] 1. A flower and shrub of any species of the genus {Rosa}, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere
Note: Roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually prickly stems. The flowers are large, and in the wild state have five petals of a color varying from deep pink to white, or sometimes yellow. By cultivation and hybridizing the number of petals is greatly increased and the natural perfume enhanced. In this way many distinct classes of roses have been formed, as the Banksia, Baurbon, Boursalt, China, Noisette, hybrid perpetual, etc., with multitudes of varieties in nearly every class.
2. A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe. --Sha.
3. (Arch.) A rose window. See {Rose window}, below.
4. A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.
5. (Med.) The erysipelas. --Dunglison.
6. The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
7. The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
8. A diamond. See {Rose diamond}, below.
{Cabbage rose}, {China rose}, etc. See under {Cabbage}, {China}, etc.
{Corn rose} (Bot.) See {Corn poppy}, under {Corn}.
{Infantile rose} (Med.), a variety of roseola.
{Jamaica rose}. (Bot.) See under {Jamaica}.
{Rose acacia} (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub ({Robinia hispida}) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms.
{Rose aniline}. (Chem.) Same as {Rosaniline}.
{Rose apple} (Bot.), the fruit of the tropical myrtaceous tree {Eugenia Jambos}. It is an edible berry an inch or more in diameter, and is said to have a very strong roselike perfume.
{Rose beetle}. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle ({Macrodactylus subspinosus}), which eats the leaves of various plants, and is often very injurious to rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Called also {rose bug}, and {rose chafer}. (b) The European chafer.
{Rose bug}. (Zo["o]l.) same as {Rose beetle}, {Rose chafer}.
{Rose burner}, a kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped flame.
{Rose camphor} (Chem.), a solid odorless substance which separates from rose oil.
{Rose campion}. (Bot.) See under {Campion}.
{Rose catarrh} (Med.), rose cold.
{Rose chafer}. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A common European beetle ({Cetonia aurata}) which is often very injurious to rosebushes; -- called also {rose beetle}, and {rose fly}. (b) The rose beetle (a) .
{Rose cold} (Med.), a variety of hay fever, sometimes attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses. See {Hay fever}, under {Hay}.
{Rose color}, the color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful hue or appearance; fancied beauty, attractiveness, or promise.
{Rose de Pompadour}, {Rose du Barry}, names succesively given to a delicate rose color used on S[`e]vres porcelain.
{Rose diamond}, a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top. Cf. {Brilliant}, n.
{Rose ear}. See under {Ear}.
{Rose elder} (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.
{Rose engine}, a machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe, by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with a variety of curved lines. --Craig.
{Rose family} (Bot.) the {Rosece[ae]}. See {Rosaceous}.
{Rose fever} (Med.), rose cold.
{Rose fly} (Zo["o]l.), a rose betle, or rose chafer.
{Rose gall} (Zo["o]l.), any gall found on rosebushes. See {Bedeguar}.
{Rose knot}, a ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to resemble a rose; a rosette.
{Rose lake}, {Rose madder}, a rich tint prepared from lac and madder precipitated on an earthy basis. --Fairholt.
{Rose mallow}. (Bot.) (a) A name of several malvaceous plants of the genus {Hibiscus}, with large rose-colored flowers. (b) the hollyhock.
{Rose nail}, a nail with a convex, faceted head.
{Rose noble}, an ancient English gold coin, stamped with the figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward III., and current at 6s. 8d. --Sir W. Scott.
{Rose of China}. (Bot.) See {China rose} (b), under {China}.
{Rose of Jericho} (Bot.), a Syrian cruciferous plant ({Anastatica Hierochuntica}) which rolls up when dry, and expands again when moistened; -- called also {resurrection plant}.
{Rose of Sharon} (Bot.), an ornamental malvaceous shrub ({Hibiscus Syriacus}). In the Bible the name is used for some flower not yet identified, perhaps a Narcissus, or possibly the great lotus flower.
{Rose oil} (Chem.), the yellow essential oil extracted from various species of rose blossoms, and forming the chief part of attar of roses.
{Rose pink}, a pigment of a rose color, made by dyeing chalk or whiting with a decoction of Brazil wood and alum; also, the color of the pigment.
{Rose quartz} (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red.
{Rose rash}. (Med.) Same as {Roseola}.
{Rose slug} (Zo["o]l.), the small green larva of a black sawfly ({Selandria ros[ae]}). These larv[ae] feed in groups on the parenchyma of the leaves of rosebushes, and are often abundant and very destructive.
{Rose window} (Arch.), a circular window filled with ornamental tracery. Called also {Catherine wheel}, and {marigold window}. Cf. {wheel window}, under {Wheel}.
{Summer rose} (Med.), a variety of roseola. See {Roseola}.
{Under the rose} [a translation of L. sub rosa], in secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; -- the rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and hung up at entertainments as a token that nothing there said was to be divulged.
{Wars of the Roses} (Eng. Hist.), feuds between the Houses of York and Lancaster, the white rose being the badge of the House of York, and the red rose of the House of Lancaster.
Rose \Rose\, v. t. 1. To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush. [Poetic] ``A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.'' --Shak.
2. To perfume, as with roses. [Poetic] --Tennyson.
Guenther Dahloff, an economic official of the West German Embassy, rose to say Mr. McPherson's concerns were just "a mirror image" of European concerns about U.S. trade policy, especially the huge new trade bill passed Wednesday.
Sales in the quarter rose 49%, to 4.70 billion marks ($2.72 billion) from 3.15 billion marks.
One measure closely watched by analysts as a barometer of the economy's strength, new orders for nondefense capital goods, rose 1.3% to $30.15 billion in October after climbing 0.7% the month before.
Officially, western German gross national product rose by an inflation-adjusted 3.1% in 1991.
On the Commodity Exchange in New York, gold for April delivery rose $1.70 an ounce to $419.70 in moderate trading estimated at three million ounces.
The government also reported that construction spending inched up 0.02 percentage point in July and the Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose a modest 0.2 percentage point that month.
A chant rose from thousands at the joyous rally: "What did you have?" Ruml smiled. "Mine was good.
Treasury Securities Prices of U.S. Treasury securities rose as much as 1/4 point as investors and traders awaited today's January employment report.
Scottish Hydro-Electric rose 1 1/2 to 103 1/2 p on turnover of 8.6m. Kleinwort Benson successfully placed 8.93m new shares in property development and construction company Wilson (Connolly) at 192p.
Cambrian & General's capital shares rose one pence to 223 pence ($3.56) but the ordinary shares were unchanged at 136 pence ($2.17) in late trading yesterday on the London stock exchange.
It takes very little low margin domestic waste. Margins in the special waste division rose from 8 per cent to more than 20 per cent as the group moved out of treatment of bulk products and focused more on smaller, more hazardous chemicals.
In 1990 commercial bank lending to small business grew by 11 per cent but public lending rose by almost 20 per cent.
Americans' disposable, or after-tax, incomes rose 1.7 percent in January after rising 0.9 percent in December and falling 0.3 percent in November.
On London's stock exchange Friday, Cadbury rose one penny (1.9 cents), to 255 pence ($4.69).
Cadbury-Schweppes, which had been worried by talk of an imminent cash call, rose 9 to 482p and Booker gained the same to 380p.
Myers said second-quarter net income rose 66%, to $2.1 million, on a 54% sales gain, from $1.3 million.
Revenue rose 7%, to $68.7 million from $64 million a year earlier.
In the first quarter, however, such spending rose 25%, to 11.74 billion yuan ($3.16 billion), from the year-earlier period.
Gold futures rose moderately on New York's Commodity Exchange, following crude oil, but silver futures finished narrowly mixed.
Direct foreign investment in the US rose from Dollars 83bn in 1980 to Dollars 403.7bn in 1990, according to the Commerce Department. The surge has slowed somewhat over the past two years as the takeover wave of the 1980s has died away.
Some blue chip stocks also rose in up-and-down trading that saw the Dow Jones industrials average fluctuate during the session before settling below a record high set Friday.
ITT Hartford's profit rose 7% to $291 million from $271 million. ITT Financial's operating profit, however, was substantially below the prior year's.
Its sharply increased use is indicated by the number of prescriptions filled, which rose 14 percent from 1983 to 1986; prescriptions for most drugs increase about 1 percent a year, according to federal statistics.
Costs rose 5% to $2.6 billion from $2.4 billion in the quarter.
The index rose at a 3.5 percent rate in the first quarter.
MGM-UA Communications rose 3/8 to 20 3/8 on news of the possible revival of its agreement to be acquired for $25 a share by Qintex Australia.
In London, the British pound rose to $1.7695 from $1.7600 late Wednesday.
Excluding the one-time items, per-share earnings rose 11%.
Meanwhile, junk bonds of Seaman Furniture Co. rose yesterday on news that the company has reached an agreement in principle with all its senior lenders on restructuring its outstanding debt.
Platinum futures prices rose; coffee futures gained; grains and soybeans were higher; cattle futures advanced while pork futures were mixed; energy futures were mixed; and stock-index futures retreated.