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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rosin \Ros"in\, n. [A variant of resin.]
The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the
volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.
{Rosin oil}, an oil obtained from the resin of the pine tree,
-- used by painters and for lubricating machinery, etc
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rosin \Ros"in\, v. t.
To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
Or with the rosined bow torment the string. --Gay.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
rosin
n : any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances
obtained either as exudations from certain plants or
prepared by polymerization of simple molecules [syn: {resin}]
v : rub rosin onto as of violin bows
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Rosin
found only in Authorized Version, margin, Ezek. 27:17, Heb.
tsori, uniformly rendered elsewhere balm" (q.v.), as here in
the text. The Vulgate has resinam rendered rosin" in the Douay
Version. As used however, by Jerome, the Lat. resina denotes
some odoriferous gum or oil.
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