rosin

[ roz-in ]

noun

1. Chemistry. the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.
2. resin.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover or rub with rosin.

rosin

/ ˈrɒzɪn /

noun

1. Also calledcolophony a translucent brittle amber substance produced in the distillation of crude turpentine oleoresin and used esp in making varnishes, printing inks, and sealing waxes and for treating the bows of stringed instruments
2. (not in technical usage) another name for resin

verb

1. tr to treat or coat with rosin

Derived Forms

• ˈrosiny, adjective

Other Words From

• rosin·y adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of rosin¹

1300–50; Middle English < Old French, variant of resine resin

Word History and Origins

Origin of rosin¹

C14: variant of resin

Example Sentences

It includes rosin, a solidified pine sap used by the printing and pharmaceutical industries, as well as by violinists to lend texture to the fine hairs of their bows.

From Quartz

Pitchers, including the Nationals’ Max Scherzer, claim they need some sticky stuff such as rosin to help them control where the ball goes.

From Washington Post

Murder by Craiglist Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic A serial killer finds a newly vulnerable class of victims: white, working-class men.

From The Daily Beast

Plus, read responses from Rebecca Traister, E.J. Graff, Hanna Rosin, Lauren Sandler, and Lindsay Beyerstein.

From The Daily Beast

The survey was conducted by Hannah Rosin, in connection with an article she was writing about “breadwinning wives.”

From The Daily Beast

So why did Hannah Rosin turn my story upside down for her bestselling polemic?

From The Daily Beast

“Hell, get out of the way,” one researcher, a biologist who conducted early gender-selection studies, tells Rosin.

From The Daily Beast

The easiest plan for both patient and physician is to give rosin-weed, as described in Chapter II.

From Project Gutenberg

For many years the fluid extract of rosin-weed has been known in my family as a remedy for rose-cold and hay fever.

From Project Gutenberg

There are more than twenty species of rosin-weed or silphium, all probably similar in their medicinal virtues.

From Project Gutenberg

In spite of this good start, rosin-weed did not have any better fortune with the homœopaths than with the eclectics.

From Project Gutenberg

As remarked in the chapter on Pollens, I have succeeded with the milder methods of rosin-weed, faradism and ichthyol.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• paste
• wax