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ROS-SOLIS

Volume 3 · 41 words · 1771 Edition

sun-dew, an agreeable spirituous liquor, composed of burnt brandy, sugar, cinnamon, and milk-water; and sometimes perfumed with a little musk: it is so called, as being at first prepared wholly of the juice of the plant ros-solis, or drosera. See Drosera.