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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.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber.

A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

A resinous obtained from Strasburg turpentine or Canada balsam. It is without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.

A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.