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

References

• “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