Rosin Definition

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rosins
noun
rosins
The hard, brittle resin, light-yellow to almost black in color, remaining after oil of turpentine has been distilled from crude turpentine or obtained from chemically treated pine stumps: it is used in making varnish, inks, soaps, insulation, etc., and is rubbed on violin bows to prevent slipping on the strings, or on the hands to prevent slipping on gymnastic equipment, etc.
Webster's New World

(organic chemistry) A solid form of resin, obtained from liquid resin by vaporizing its volatile components.

Wiktionary

Resin.

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Synonyms:
verb
rosins
To rub with rosin.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Rosin

Noun

Singular:
rosin
Plural:
rosins

Origin of Rosin

  • Middle English variant of resin resin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Rosin Sentence Examples

  • The value of the turpentine and rosin products in 1905 was $2,434,365.

  • Gold and silver chasers keep their work firm by means of a cement of pitch and rosin, a little tallow, and brick-dust to thicken.

  • What is normally added to a rosin flux to improve its effectiveness?

  • In Scandinavia a thick turpentine oozes from cracks or fissures in the bark, forming by its congelation a fine yellow resin, known commercially as "spruce rosin," or "frankincense"; it is also procured artificially by cutting off the ends of the lower branches, when it slowly exudes from the extremities.

  • The manufacture of turpentine and rosin, material for which is obtained from the pine forests, had increased greatly in importance between 1890 and 1900, the product in 1890 being valued at only $191,859, that of 1900 at $6,469,605, and from the latter sum it increased in 1905 to $9,901,905, an increase of more than one-half.

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