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The act of resigning.

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. J. Ellis.

The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

Leaping back; rebounding; recoling.

Resilience. [R.]

e, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).

Having the quality of resin; resinous.

Any one of the salts the resinic acids.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids.

Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel.

Having the form of resin.

Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity.

Somewhat like resin.

Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity (Elec.), electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.

By means, or in the manner, of resin.

The quality of being resinous.

Like resin; resinous.

Wisdom derived from severe experience; hence, repentance. [R.] Bp. Montagu.

against; to withstand; to obstruct. That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. Milton.

The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active. When King Demetrius saw that . . . no resistance was made against him, he sent away all his forces. 1. Macc. xi. 38.