rosmarine

English

Noun

rosmarine (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Dew from the sea.
    • Ben Jonson
      That purer brine / And wholesome dew called rosmarine.
  2. (obsolete) rosemary
    • Bishop Hall
      biting on anise seed and rosmarine
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Latin

Noun

rosmarine

  1. vocative singular of rosmarinus
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