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† perrosin Obs.
Forms: 5 perrosin, -yn, 6 perosin, -en, pirrosyn, 6–7 perrosen, 7 per-rosin.
[app. a corruption of AF. *peis-resin = OF. pois- or poix-resin ‘the resin of turpentine’ (Littré). Cf. pitch-resin.]
An old name for a resin of some kind, app. the dry resin obtained from pine trees; colophony.
c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 173 Tak þre quarterons of clene rosyn, & a quarteron of good perrosyn, & half a pounde of good oile de olyue. Ibid. 174 As sone as þy rosyn & þy perrosyn beth molten & relented. 1545Rates of Customs C j b, Perosen the C. pound xiiis. iiiid. 1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 52 Boyle your Rosyne, Pirrosyn and Waxe, with four vnce of deare suet. 1600Surflet Country Farme i. iv. 11 The best are made of aller tree, firre tree, or pine tree, out of which distilleth perrosen [Fr. orig. duquel sort la poix resine]. 1601Holland Pliny II. 181 Taken in wine with dry per-rosin [resina sicca], it [sphagnos] causeth one most speedily to make water. Ibid. 182 Of the dry per-rosins [in sicco genere], those are in most request which be white, pure, transparent, or cleare, quite through. |