rosmarine

English

Noun

rosmarine (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Dew from the sea.
   • 1605, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness:

     That purer brine / And wholesome dew called rosmarine.

2. (obsolete) Rosemary.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     Fat coleworts, and comforting perseline, / Cold lettuce, and refreshing rosmarine

   • c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:

     biting on anise-seed and rose-marine

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Morrisean, Romaniser

Latin

Noun

rōsmarīne

1. vocative singular of rōsmarīnus