Middle English Dictionary Entry
rō̆sē̆t adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | rō̆sē̆t adj. Also rosete, rosette, roseth. |
| Etymology | OF roset & ML rosetus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Made of a distillation of red or white roses, colored and flavored with roses; mel ~ [see also mel n.(1)(b)]; oile ~ [see also oil(e n.1b.(e)]; sugre ~ (whit [see also sugre n.]; (b) ~ colour, a rose-colored pigment; (c) goute ~, = gutta rosacea [s.v. gutta n.2.(a)]; (d) as noun: rose color [?with pun on russet n.]; also, a distillation of roses; oile of ~.
Associated quotations
a
- (1363-4) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100566 : 6 lb. de Sugreroset, lb. ad 7 d.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)244a/a : Of rose wel y-pouned and wel incorporat with zugre is made succura rosacea, zugre roset [vr. rosette], þat haþ vertu to conforte and to bynde and helpeþ aȝeins þe blody flux and aȝeins colerik spuyng and aȝeins swownynge and þe cardiake passioun.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)37/12 : Þis mundificatif..is maad of flour of wheete & hony & water & mel roset [vr. mel rosate] I-colat, þat is to seie, clensid from þe rosis.
- a1400 Med.Bk.(2) (Roy 17.A.3)92 : For to make oile roset [vrr. rosete, Russet, rosette; L rosaceum].
- c1400 Sln.468 Cook.Recipes (Sln 468)87.22/6 : Boyle þat..melk & do it to þe flesch & sesen it with sugre roset.
- (?a1390) Daniel *Herbal (Add 27329)f.113rb : The leues of qwit pope: good for egre fu; with oile roset, croc, & 3elke of ey for peyne in eynes.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)12/5 : A gode leche puruey hym þat he want neuer oyle roset, siþ þer procedeþ of it many helpyngis to mannes body.
- ?a1450 Macer (Stockh Med.10.91)74 : Medle rue iuus with oile roset, ceruse, and wynegre.
- c1450 Lydg.SSecr.Ctn.(Sln 2464)1712 : To make vomyth afftir my doctryne, Sugre Roseet with aloes mastyk Wel Chawyd.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)172/532 : Of the rede levys shrede small and of hony togedir is made mel rosett: to a pound of roses thou shalt viij pound of hony..and sothen..till the hony haue both the sauoure and coloure of roses.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)123 : Ȝef aman be prikked in to a senewe..take good oyle roset & let chaufe hit warme as he þat is hurt may suffre hit, & poure hit in to place þat is prikked.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)318/444 : Of þe rose..Hys rede, gaderyd in someris day And kyndely dryed..It arn goode..To gryndyn and don to sucre-roseth [rime: set].
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)23a/5 : Abowe þe wounde of the fell lay amundificatiue..of mell roset and flour of barlyche.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)23b/8 : After þe last wasshyng, lay vpon hym of sugr' Roset [vr. Sewgyr rosett whyte; L zuccaro ro. albo].
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)p.79 : Corinthe is a ston blac & rounde..If a man stamp it with oyle roset..he dar not reche of hurtyng of edders.
b
- c1500 Recipe MSS Hast.in HMC (Hnt HU 1051)1.424 : Tak that cloute and ley it over the dysche with brasyl and under set the dysch on a syde that the colour ma drawe to the syde of the dysch and then xal the cloute drawe out the clene water and the rosette colour xal ay be dryand.
c
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)189/12 : Of..goute roset.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)358/14 : The iiij c[hapitre] is of..gowte roset & ȝolowisch.
d
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)161/4805,4808 : As an ancre, madame, in clothis blake, So thynkith me ye haue professioun take..For strike ye are from Rosett out and blewe..as for blew, y clothe therin myn hert, And alle-tha rosett is y-entirmelle, I kepe therin my pouer thought covert.
- ?c1450 Iff a man (Stockh 10.90)314/260 : Ȝif it be lewkyd with oyle of roset, Feuerows man, onoyntyd iij dayes with-all, þe malys of feueres for-beryn he schall.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)20a/25 : Than it is nedfull þat þou fyll þe wounde of oyle of Roset hote.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 Cmb.Diseases Hawk (Cmb Ll.1.18)47 : For the fylaundres…take…sugur rocet, and gyff hit her in a rop in her soper.
Note: New spelling
Note: per REL: like ~ roche — but prob. = roset