Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation of imparting a pink tint to raw white silk.
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- verb Present participle of
rose .
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Examples
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The EIA data also diverged from a report Tuesday from the American Petroleum Institute, an industry group, that showed U.S. oil stockpiles rosing last week.
Oil Rises As US Stockpiles Fall, Bernanke Speaks Dan Strumpf 2011
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I found a thicket and slept; slept it must have been for many hours, for when I again awakened the dawn was rosing the east.
The Moon Pool 2004
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I found a thicket and slept; slept it must have been for many hours, for when I again awakened the dawn was rosing the east.
The Moon Pool 1919
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I found a thicket and slept; slept it must have been for many hours, for when I again awakened the dawn was rosing the east.
The Moon Pool Abraham Merritt 1913
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The whole thing had happened so quickly that the rich light from the west was still bronzing the edges of the flat-ledged furze boughs, and rosing their white stems, when the little hollow behind the
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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The Titanic star began her acting career on British TV in the 1990s before breaking into Hollywood movies rosing to stardom.
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The Titanic star began her acting career on British TV in the 1990s before breaking into Hollywood movies rosing to stardom.
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That rising day sinks rosing in a night of nine week’s wonder. —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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