ROSE-APPLE. See [JAMBOO].
ROSELLE, s. The Indian Hibiscus or Hib. sabdariffa, L. The fleshy calyx makes an excellent sub-acid jelly, and is used also for tarts; also called 'Red Sorrel.' The French call it 'Guinea Sorrel,' Oseille de Guinée, and Roselle is probably a corruption of Oseille. [See [PUTWA].]
[ROSE-MALLOWS, s. A semi-fluid resin, the product of the Liquidambar altingia, which grows in Tenasserim; also known as Liquid Storax, and used for various medicinal purposes. (See Hanbury and Flückiger, Pharmacog. 271, Watt, Econ. Dict. V. 78 seqq.). The Burmese name of the tree is nan-ta-yoke (Mason, Burmah, 778). The word is a corruption of the Malay-Javanese rasamalla, Skt. rasa-mālā, 'Perfume garland,' the gum being used as incense (Encycl. Britann. 9th ed. xii. 718.)
1598.—"Rosamallia."—Linschoten, Hak. Soc. i. 150.]
ROTTLE, RATTLE, s. Arab. raṭl or riṭl, the Arabian pound, becoming in S. Ital. rotolo; in Port. arratel; in Span. arrelde; supposed to be originally a transposition of the Greek λίτρα, which went all over the Semitic East. It is in Syriac as līṭrā; and is also found as lītrīm (pl.) in a Phœnician inscription of Sardinia, dating c. B.C. 180 (see Corpus Inscriptt. Semitt. i. 188-189.)
c. 1340.—"The ritl of India which is called sīr (see [SEER]) weighs 70 mithḳāls ... 40 sīrs form a mann (see [MAUND])."—Shihābuddīn Dimishkī, in Notes and Exts. xiii. 189.
[c. 1590.—"Ḳafíz is a measure, called also sáa' weighing 8 raṭl, and, some say, more."—Āīn, ed. Jarrett, ii. 55.
[1612.—"The [bahar] is 360 rottolas of Moha."—Danvers, Letters, i. 193.]
1673.—"... Weights in Goa:
| 1 Baharr | is | 3½ Kintal. |
| 1 Kintal | is | 4 Arobel or Rovel. |
| 1 Arobel | is | 32 Rotolas. |
| 1 Rotola | is | 16 Ounc. or 1l. Averd." |
| Fryer, 207. | ||