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- noun Plural form of
rosin . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rosin .
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Examples
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As you make your grand entrance, you can bet people notice the way that drop-dead red dress brings out the rosins in your cheeks -- or, conversely, the way that dreary mustard yellow sweater makes you look drawn and worn.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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As you make your grand entrance, you can bet people notice the way that drop-dead red dress brings out the rosins in your cheeks -- or, conversely, the way that dreary mustard yellow sweater makes you look drawn and worn.
Non-Fiction: Life in Color: Visual Therapy’s Guide to the Perfect Palette 2009
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The musicians will present the students with a gift of music scores and equipment, including bows, rosins, reeds and mouthpieces.
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It is made of linseed oil, rosins, and wood flour, affixed to a natural jute backing.
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In my experience, the old herbals, receipts, and other references to The Useful Plants all seem to conflate gums, resins, rosins, balsams, mastics,and incenses -- it immediately struck me that "frankgum" was likely a local variant of "frankincense", a rather loosely-used term to describe any fragrant or palatable tree sap.
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Grindelia resins have properties similar to the terpenoids in wood and gum rosins, which are used commercially in adhesives, varnishes, paper sizings, printing inks, soaps, and numerous other industrial applications
Chapter 10 1990
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It produces large amounts of aromatic resins that have properties similar to the terpenoids in wood and gum rosins, which are used commercially in adhesives, varnishes, paper sizings, printing inks, soaps, and numerous other industrial applications.
Chapter 6 1990
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Grindelia resins have properties similar wood rosins, which are used in a wide variety of industrial applications.
Chapter 10 1990
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The reaction is rather violent, and yields, in addition to well-defined crystalline substances, amorphous bodies resembling rosins.
Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser
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When me puts up tomatoes in the spirit-world, me rosins 'em when they bile.
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