rosmarine
English
Noun
rosmarine (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Dew from the sea.
- 1605, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness
- That purer brine / And wholesome dew called rosmarine.
- 1605, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness
- (obsolete) Rosemary.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294:
- Fat coleworts, and comforting perseline, / Cold lettuce, and refreshing rosmarine
- c. 1600, Joseph Hall, Satires
- biting on anise-seed and rose-marine
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rosmarine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Morrisean, Romaniser
Latin
Noun
rōsmarīne
- vocative singular of rōsmarīnus