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Rosin

rosin

The hard, amber-coloured 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.

Origin: A variant of resin.


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