Dictionary entry

Rosy

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ros″y (?), a. [Compar.Rosier (?); superl.Rosiest.] Resembling a rose in color, form, or qualities; blooming; red; blushing; also, adorned with roses.

A smile that glowed

Celestial rosy-red, love's proper hue. Milton.

While blooming youth and gay delight

Sit thy rosy cheeks confessed. Prior.

Rosy is sometimes used in the formation of self�xplaining compounde; as, rosy-bosomed, rosy-colored, rosy-crowned, rosy-fingered, rosy-tinted.

Rosy cross. See the Note under Rosicrucian, n.