Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling rosin; abounding with rosin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective like rosin, or having its qualities.

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  • adjective Like or resembling rosin.

Etymologies

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rosin +‎ -y

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Examples

  • And if I went inside and smelled again the inky, dusty smell of the big schoolroom, the rosiny smell of the chapel, the stagnant smell of the swimming bath and the cold reek of the lavatories, I think I should only feel what one invariably feels in revisiting any scene of childhood: How small everything has grown, and how terrible is the deterioration in myself!

    Such, Such Were the Joys 1947

  • But, as soon as his eyes opins, his face begins to flare up like wan iv thim r-round stoves in a woodman's shanty whin rosiny wood is thrun in.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • And if I went inside and smelled again the inky, dusty smell of the big schoolroom, the rosiny smell of the chapel, the stagnant smell of the swimming bath and the cold reek of the lavatories, I think I should only feel what one invariably feels in revisiting any scene of childhood: How small everything has grown, and how terrible is the deterioration in myself!

    Collected Essays 1900

  • Anthea slipped away to the cupboard under the stairs where the brooms and dustpans were kept, and the rosiny fire-lighters that smell so nice and like the woods where pine-trees grow, and the old newspapers and the bees-wax and turpentine, and the horrid an stiff dark rags that are used for cleaning brass and furniture, and the paraffin for the lamps.

    The Phoenix and the Carpet 1891

  • A few white pines and balsam firs occur here and there, mostly around the edges of sunny openings, where they enrich the air with their rosiny fragrance, and bring out the peculiar beauties of the predominating foxtails by contrast.

    Steep Trails John Muir 1876

  • When he had played it over two or three times, he laid the fiddle in its place, and departed -- able just to see, by the light of the neglected candle, that Bell sat on the bedside stroking the rosiny hand of her husband, the rhinoceros-hide of which was yet delicate enough to let the love through to his heart.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • But the only one who saw the splendour was a shoemaker, who rubbed his rosiny hands together, and felt happy without knowing why.

    Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

  • 71, No. 2, and Beethoven's String Quartet in C, Op. 59, No. 3, which were both enlivened by rosiny, character-rich tone.

    In performance: Takacs Quartet 2010

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