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.
2. To perfume, as with roses. [Poetic] --Tennyson.
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.