rosmarine

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noun

Dew from the sea.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounrosmarine (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableDew from the sea.

    That purer brine / And wholesome dew called rosmarine.

    1605, Ben Jonson, The Masque of Blackness
  2. obsoleteuncountableRosemary.

    biting on anise-seed and rose-marine

    1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC
    1 more example

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

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

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