Metropolitan Hospital (health) and rose(1) (iou)

Metropolitan Hospital (health)

Metropolitan Hospital is a hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA).

rose(1) (iou)

rose noun & adjective.
[Old English rose corresp. to Middle Dutch rose (Dutch roos), Old High German rosa (German Rose), Old Norse rosa, from Germanic from Latin rosa rel. to Greek rhodon; reinforced in Middle English from Old & mod. French rose.]
A. noun.
I.
The flower, freq. fragrant and (in cultivated forms) double, of the rose (sense 2). OE.
Any plant of the genus Rosa (family Rosaceae), which comprises pinnate-leaved, usu. prickly, freq. climbing shrubs bearing large usu. pink, white, yellow, or crimson flowers and includes many species, varieties, and hybrids grown for ornament; a rose bush. LME.
burnet rose, cabbage rose, damask rose, Japanese rose, moss rose, tea rose, etc.
Any of various plants resembling the rose, esp. in the Beauty of their flower. Chiefly in phrs. (see below) or with specifying word. LME.
Alpine rose, Christmas rose, guelder rose, rock rose, etc.
II.
A rose as a symbol of Beauty, virtue, perfection, etc.; a thing or person (esp. a woman) of great Beauty, virtue, perfection, etc.; a paragon. OE.
Longfellow The Rose in which the Word Divine Became incarnate. C. Williams Hell is a funnel; heaven is a rose. J. Fowles I hear she's the rose of the season.
b. In pl. Favourable circumstances; ease, Success, comfort, pleasure, etc. M19.
R. Church Life had been all roses..in the infants' school.
Secrecy; confidence; privacy. Chiefly in under the rose below. M16.
III.
Heraldry. A conventionalized representation of a rose, usu. with five lobes or petals. ME.
(A representation of) a rose as the emblem of either of the Houses of York (white rose) or Lancaster (red rose), or of England. Now also, this as the emblem of any of various rival Sports teams of Yorkshire and Lancashire. LME.
Joyce Bravo Lancaster! The red rose wins. Western Mail (Cardiff) Those who have worn the white jersey with the red rose.
b. A representation of a rose in painting, needlework, etc. LME.
a. A figure of a rose, carved or moulded in plaster etc.; spec. (Architecture) = ROSETTE noun 4a. LME.
C. Mackenzie From the heart of every oaken rose..peered..a deadly sin. P. Fussell The 'bar' to the Military Cross..is a..silver rose.
b. A rose-shaped ornamental knot of ribbon etc. freq. worn on a shoe-front, hat, bodice, etc.; spec. this worn on a clergyman's hat. Cf. ROSETTE noun 2. E17.
c. Music. An ornamental device inserted in the sound-hole or the table of certain stringed instruments. L17.
a. A circular pattern showing the thirty-two points of the compass; spec. the card of a compass or barometer. Cf. compass rose s.v. COMPASS noun, rose diagram below. E16.
b. A circular mounting through which the shaft of a door-handle or the wiring of an electric light may pass. M19.
Practical Householder Two extra cables..one to the ceiling rose.
c. A movement in sword dancing, in which the dancers form a circle and each sets his or her hilt under his or her neighbour's point to create an interlocked pentagon, octagon, etc. E20.
A natural structure or formation resembling or suggesting a rose in shape; spec. (a) a circular protuberance round the base of a deer's antler; (b) a circular pattern of feathers on the crown of a fancy pigeon's head; (c) Geology. = rock rose (c) s.v. ROCK noun1; (d) the rounded end of a (sprouting) potato. M17.
a. More fully rose diamond. A rose-cut diamond. L17.
b. In full rose window. A circular window, esp. one with tracery radiating like the spokes of a wheel or the petals of a flower. E19.
c. In full rose nail. A nail with a rounded head cut into triangular facets. M19.
A perforated cap or nozzle attached to the spout of a watering-can, hose, etc., as a sprinkler or strainer. E18.
Good Housekeeping Watering can..with a choice of detachable roses.
IV.
A pink or light crimson; the colour of a red or pink rose. ME.
C. Mackenzie The setting sun..flushing with rose the..tops of the Alps.
a. A rose-coloured Wine. Only in LME.
b. A rose-coloured or reddish variety of apple, pear, potato, etc. L17.
A fresh pink or blushing complexion. Usu. in pl. L16.
B. Bainbridge The roses left her cheeks.
the Rose, a local inflammation of the skin, esp. erysipelas. L16.
Phrases: ash of roses, ashes of roses: see ASH noun2 1. bed of roses: see BED noun. golden rose an ornament, usu. consisting of or incorporating a wrought-gold rose, blessed and presented by the Pope on the fourth Sunday of Lent as a mark of favour to some notable Roman Catholic person, church, or city. moonlight and roses: see MOONLIGHT noun 1. not the rose but near it not ideal but approaching or near this. oil of roses (an) oil extracted from roses. Persian Yellow rose: see PERSIAN adjective. pluck a rose: see PLUCK verb. red rose: see sense 5 above. ring-a-ring o'roses: see RING noun1. rose du Barry [Comtesse du Barry (1746-93), a patron of the Sevres porcelain factory] = rose Pompadour below. rose of heaven a Mediterranean campion, Silene coeli-rosa, with rose-purple flowers, grown for ornament. rose of Jericho a cruciferous plant, Anastatica hierochuntica, of deserts in N. Africa and the Middle East; also called resurrection plant. rose of Sharon [translating Hebrew (S. of S. 2:1) = an unidentified flower] (a) N. Amer. the common Garden hibiscus, Hibiscus syriacus; (b) a shrubby St John's wort, Hypericum calycinum, freq. planted as ground cover; (c) (chiefly N. Amer.) a variety of floral quilt pattern. smell of roses seem to be flawless or faultless. south sea rose: see SOUTH adverb, adjective, noun, & verb. the last rose the last flowering of an era, Art form, etc. Tudor rose: see TUDOR adjective. under the rose in secret, in strict confidence; = SUB ROSA. Wars of the Roses the 15th-cent. civil wars between the Yorkists and Lancastrians (cf. sense 5 above). white rose: see sense 5 above.
b. attrib. or as adjective.
Having, containing, or covered or decorated with roses. OE.
rose-bed, rose-bower, rose-walk, etc.
Of or pertaining to a rose or roses. ME.
rose blossom, rose-dust, rose-grower, rose-petal, etc.
Made from, or flavoured or scented with, roses. LME.
rose-crystal, rose-powder, etc.
Having the shape of a rose. E16.
rose boss, rose knot, rose ornament, etc.
Of the colour of a red or pink rose; delicate red, light crimson. L16.
J. Hay A sky..Blushed rose o'er the minster-glades.
Comb. & special collocations: rose acacia a false acacia, Robinia hispida, with rose-coloured flowers, native to mountains in the US; rose aphid any of various aphids that affect roses, esp. Macrosiphum rosae; rose-apple (the fragrant edible fruit of) any of several Malayan trees of the genus Syzygium, of the myrtle family, esp. S. jambos and S. malaccensis, much grown in the tropics; rosebay (a) the oleander, Nerium oleander; (b) (more fully rosebay willowherb) an ornamental willowherb, Chamerion angustifolium, of woodland clearings etc., with long lanceolate leaves and showy rose-purple flowers; (c) any of several N. American azaleas, esp. Rhododendron maximum; rose-beetle a rose-chafer, esp. Cetonia aurata; rose-berry a rose-hip; rose bit a countersink bit having a conical head with radial cutting teeth that meet at the tip; rosebowl (a) a bowl for holding cut roses; spec. this as a prize in a competition; (b) the annual New Year's Day final of the American college Football tournament, in the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California (freq. attrib.); rose box (a) a box for holding roses; (b) Nautical the strainer at the end of the suction pipe of a bilge pump; rose-breasted adjective having a rosy or carmine-coloured breast; rose-breasted cockatoo, the galah, Eolophus roseicapillus; rose-breasted finch = rosefinch below; rose-breasted grosbeak, an American grosbeak, Pheucticus ludovicianus, the male of which is black and white with a red breast-patch; rose-bug US a rose-chafer, esp. Macrodactylus supspinosus; rose bush a rose plant; rose-cake (a) a cake of compressed rose-petals, used as a perfume; (b) a kind of sweet flavoured with oil of roses; rose-campion an ornamental Garden campion, Lychnis coronaria, with woolly leaves and magenta flowers; rose-chafer any of various burnished green or copper chafers of the genus Cetonia, esp. C. aurata, which feed on the flowers of roses etc. as adults; US a reddish-brown chafer, Macrodactylus subspinosus; rose cockatoo = GALAH; rose comb a flat flesh-coloured comb on the head of certain fowls; a bird having this; rose copper copper which has been repeatedly melted, highly refined, or purified; rose-cut noun & adjective (a) noun a style of cutting a diamond into a flat-bottomed hemisphere with a curved upper surface covered with triangular facets; (b) adjective (of a diamond) cut in this style; rose diagram: in which values of a quantity in various directions are shown graphically according to compass bearing, as on a wind-rose; rose diamond: see sense A.11a above. rose-drop (a) Medicine = ROSACEA; cf. rosy drop s.v. ROSY adjective; (b) a kind of sweet flavoured with essence of roses; rose-engine an arm on a lathe for engraving intricate curved patterns; rosefinch any of various small Eurasian finches of the genus Carpodacus, the males of which have red or pink plumage; rose-fish any of various Atlantic scorpaenid redfishes of the genus Sebastes, esp. S. marinus; rose-gall = BEDEGUAR; rose gall-fly, rose gall-wasp any of various gall-wasps of the genus Diplolepis, which produce galls on rose-leaves; rose geranium any of several pelargoniums, esp. Pelargonium graveolens, with rose-scented leaves and pink flowers; a perfume resembling the scent of such a plant; rose gold gold alloyed with a little copper, having a reddish tinge; rose-grub = rose-maggot below; rose-hip the fruit of the rose; = HIP noun2; rose-hopper = rose leafhopper below; rose-leaf the leaf or (usu.) petal of a rose; rose leafhopper a greenish-yellow leafhopper, Edwardsiana rosae, which attacks the foliage of roses; rose linnet, (Scot.) rose lintie (a) the linnet in summer plumage; (b) the redpoll; rose madder the rose colour produced by madder dye or pigment; rose-maggot the larva of any of various rose-infesting insects, esp. tortricid leaf-rollers; rose mahogany an Australian timber tree, Dysoxylum fraserianum (family Meliaceae); its fragrant reddish wood; rose-mallow any ornamental hibiscus; rose-mole a reddish mark or mole; rose nail: see sense A.11c above; rose-noble (obsolete exc. Hist.) a gold coin of variable value current in the 15th and 16th cents., being a type of noble stamped with a rose; rosepath a pattern used in weaving; rose plantain a sport of the greater plantain, Plantago major, in which the flowering spike is replaced by a rosette of leafy bracts; rose-point point lace having a raised pattern of a conventionalized rose; rose Pompadour [Marquise de Pompadour (1721-64), mistress of Louis XV of France] a soft shade of pink or pale crimson developed c 1757 as a ground colour for Sevres porcelain; rose quartz Mineralogy a translucent pink variety of quartz; rose-rash = ROSEOLA; rose rial (obsolete exc. Hist.) a gold coin stamped with a rose, having a value of thirty shillings, coined by James I; roseroot a tall glaucous stonecrop of mountains and sea-cliffs, Sedum (or Rhodiola) rosea, which has greenish-yellow flowers and a root smelling of roses when bruised; rose sawfly any of various sawflies with larvae that feed on rose-leaves; rose show an exhibition mainly or entirely of roses; rose-spot Medicine a red spot characteristic of certain fevers, esp. typhoid; Rose Sunday (obsolete exc. Hist.) the fourth Sunday in Lent; rose-temple a raised turret or summer-house over which climbing roses may be trained; rose-tinted adjective rose-coloured; rose tree a rose bush; esp. a standard rose; rose vine US a climbing rose; rose window: see sense A.11b above; rose-work a pattern produced by a rose-engine; the process by which this is produced; rosewort (now rare) = roseroot above.
roseless adjective without roses; pale, colourless: M19.
roselet, roselette noun a small rose; a figure or representation of this: L15.
roselike adjective resembling a rose in appearance or scent M16.
rosery noun a rose-Garden; a cluster or plantation of rose bushes: L16.

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