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  4  definitions  found 
 
  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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