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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.

The quality of being rosy.

The compass plant. See under Compass.

like rosin, or having its qualities.

An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback.

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminæ.

A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.

A ferment, resembling diastase, found in mustard seeds.

A dark blue dyestuff, of the induline group; -- called also azodiphenyl blue.

The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. Sir W. Scott.

Prosily.

by decomposition yields oxybenzoic acid, or some other benzol derivative. [Written also tyrosine.]

Rosin.

.), a plant of the American prairies (Silphium laciniatum), not unlike a small sunflower; rosinweed. Its lower and root leaves are vertical, and on the prairies are disposed to present their edges north and south. Its leaves are turned to the north as true as the magnet: This is the compass flower. Longefellow. -- Comp…

read; to smear. "Boats . . . sewed together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff like rosin." De Foe. -- To do to death, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.] -- To do up. (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up. (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.] (d) To starch and iro…

(b) A very strong curved spade used in digging canals. -- Grafting wax, a composition of rosin, beeswax tallow, etc., used in binding up the wounds of newly grafted trees.

gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Called also epidermose.

ion of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin.

To write prose. Prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter. Milton.