Definition of Rosinous

1. resembling rosin [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rosinous

rosilla
rosily
rosin
rosin bag
rosin paper
rosin papers
rosinate
rosinates
rosined
rosiness
rosinesses
rosing
rosining
rosinol
rosinols
rosinous (current term)
rosins
rosinweed
rosinweeds
rosiny
rosish
rosit
rosita
rosited
rositing
rosits
rosland
rosmarine
rosmarinic acid
rosocyanine

Literary usage of Rosinous

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"This " rosinous substance " is an acid, has a brown colour, ... This " rosinous substance," or " degras -former," is an oxidation product (cp. p. ..."

2. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1840)
"The ancients were accustomed to mix some of the rosinous products of this tree ... The rosinous secretions of this tree not only increase the durability and ..."

3. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor: Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1840)
"The rosinous secretions of this tree not only increase the durability and ... The ancients were accustomed to mix some of the rosinous products of this tree ..."

4. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"He therefore frequently resorts to it when time and opportunities * A term applied to wood very rich in rosinous matter. ..."

5. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... which did happen, because the houses are all of «ood, and the streets paved with great fir-trees, set close together, which, being oily and rosinous, ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Translucent; dull rosinous. White. Molts at 165°, and burns with much smoke. Very soluble in ether, much less so in alcohol. Cc: 87 '8 carbon, ..."

7. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"BATA, Musa Paradisiaca. BATA'TA DE PUR'GA. The Brazilian and commercial name of the purgative, feculent, and gum-rosinous roots of two plants of the family ..."

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