resinyadj.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. vi. f.147 It is blacke, like pytch, and shyneth like to Ieate,..and as certayne resynie stuffe [L. resinata quaedam].

1686 G. Harvey Conclave of Physicians (ed. 2) ii. x. 114 A potent Attractive of some dry resiny Powder, one degree above Saw-dust, was applied to the Soals of her Feet.

1722 J. Miller Botanicum Officinale 443 This is a Root about a Finger thick, brown on the outside, and whitish and somewhat resiny within, of a hot Taste.

1756 S. White Collateral Bee Boxes 32 They [sc. bees] are careful to stop every little Hole or Crevice that is found in their Houses, with this resiny Substance.

1837 G. Cochrane Wanderings in Greece I. 169 Many of them came forward and pledged us in their country wine,—which, though a little resiny, politeness required that we should partake of.

1888 J. M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls iv. 94 ‘Rosetty (resiny) roots’ for firewood.

1928 M. Forrest Reaping Roses 139 There were scraps of dry wood, nests of dead, resiny leaves lying about in the circle the moreton bay fig so generously sheltered.

1947 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 34 268 H[evea] pauciflora itself has a very poor resiny rubber and is never tapped commercially.

a1972 J. Berryman Delusions (1973) 16 So may I run for You, less laggard lately, less deluded man of oxblood expectation with fiery little resiny aftertastes.

2002 Whisky Mag. Aug. 69/1 Palate: Clean, sweet. Vanilla. Some resiny, lemon peel notes. Honey.