rosin
ro zuhn
- 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
- v rub rosin onto
rosin the violin bow
- Newport now manufactures acceptable turpentine and rosin in grades ranging from the worst and darkest Grade B ("Benny" to Newport men, "Betsy" to Hercules) to the finest .
- They get their rosin, turpentine and pine oil not from sawdust but from the dead stumps in cut-over Southern timber landthe deader the better.
- Hundreds of individual distillers boiled it down, sold turpentine and rosin to factors who stored them until purchasers came to buy.