Meaning of roscid | Babel Free

Definitions

Containing or consisting of dew; dewy.

archaic

Examples

“The differences of earths and the trial of them, are worthy to be diligently inquired […] It is thought by some, that the ends of low rainbows fall⟳ more upon one kind of earth than upon another; as it may well be; for that that earth is most roscid: and therefore it is commended for a sign⟳ of good earth.”

“For all the while her purged ashes rest⟳ / These rellicks dry suck⟳ in the heavenly dew, / And roscid Manna rains upon her breast, / And fills with sacred milk sweet fresh and new, / Where all take⟳ life and doth the world renew;”

“But in that expression, “the lilies drop forth myrrh,” neither proper lilies nor proper myrrh can be apprehended, the one not proceeding from the other, but may be received in a metaphorical sense⟳: and in some latitude may be made out from the roscid and honey drops observable in the flowers of martagon, and inverted flowered lilies, and, 'tis like⟳, is the standing sweet dew on the white eyes of the crown imperial, now common among us.”

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