rose

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A member of the rose family.
• noun Any of numerous shrubs or vines of the genus Rosa, having prickly stems and pinnately compound leaves, widely cultivated for their showy, often fragrant flowers.
• noun The flower of any of these plants.
• noun Any of various other plants, especially one having similar flowers.
• noun A dark pink to moderate red.
• noun An ornament, such as a decorative knot, resembling a rose in form; a rosette.
• noun A perforated nozzle for spraying water from a hose or sprinkling can.
• noun A form of gem cut marked by a flat base and a faceted, hemispheric upper surface.
• noun A gem, especially a diamond, cut in this manner.
• noun A rose window.
• noun A compass card or its representation, as on a map.
• noun That which is marked by favor, success, or ease of execution.
• adjective Of the color rose.
• adjective Relating to, containing, or used for roses.
• adjective Scented or flavored with or as if with roses.
• idiom (come up roses) To result favorably or successfully.
• idiom (under the rose) Sub rosa.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To render rose-colored; redden; cause to flush or blush.
• To perfume as with roses.
• An obsolete or dialectal form of roose.
• noun In geometry, certain transcendental curves having, in polar coördinates, equations of the form ρ = α cos b θ.
• Preterit of rise.
• noun A shrub of the genus Rosa, or its flower, found wild in numerous species, and cultivated from remote antiquity.
• noun One of various other plants so named from some resemblance to the true rose. See the phrases below.
• noun A knot of ribbon in the form of a rose, used as an ornamental tie of a hat-band, garter, shoe, etc.
• noun Figuratively, full flush or bloom.
• noun A light crimson color. Colors ordinarily called crimson are too dark to receive the name of rose. See II.
• noun In heraldry, a conventional representation of the flower, composed of five leaves or lobes, or, in other words, a kind of cinquefoil: when the five spaces between the leaves are filled by small pointed leaves representing the calyx, it is said to be barbed. (See barb, n., 8.)
• noun In arch, and art: A rose-window
• noun Any ornamental feature or work of decorative character having a circular outline: properly a larger and more important feature or work than a rosette or a circular boss.
• noun A rosette, as of lace.
• noun In zoology, a formation suggestive of a rose; a radiating disposition or arrangement of parts; a rosette, as that formed at the parting of feathers on the heads of domestic pigeons of different breeds, or that represented by caruncles about the eyes or beak. Compare rose-comb, under comb, 3.
• noun A perforated nozle of a pipe, spout, etc., to distribute water in fine shower-like jets; a rose-head; also, a plate similarly perforated covering some aperture.
• noun An ornamental annular piece of wood or metal surrounding the spindle of a door-lock or a gas-pipe at the point where it passes through a wall or ceiling.
• noun The disease erysipelas: so named, popularly, from its color.
• noun In English history, one of the two rival factions, York and Lancastrian. See Wars of the Roses, below.
• noun A circular card or disk, or a diagram with radiating lines: as, the compass-card or rose of the compass; the barometric rose, which shows the barometric pressure, at any place, in connection with the winds blowing from different points of the compass; a wind-rose.
• noun In musical instruments like flutes, guitars, dulcimers, and harpsichords, an ornamental device set in the sound-hole of the belly, and often serving as a trade-mark as well as a decoration.
• noun A form in which precious stones, especially small diamonds, are frequently cut.
• noun A very small diamond, scarcely more than a splinter, of which as many as 400 are sometimes necessary to make a carat, or 60,000 to make an ounce. These are seldom regularly cut, 6 to 8 facets only being the usual number.
• noun A rose-mallow, Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis. See shoeblack-plant.
• noun Same as sage-rose.
• noun Specifically, the French rose.
• noun In botany, the order Rosaceæ.
• noun A St.-John's-wort, Hypericum calycinum. Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant-names. [Prov. Eng.]
• noun Same as althæa, 2. [U. S.]
• noun Specifically, Rosa alba, a garden rose, native in the Caucasus.