rosinyadj.

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 271 Both the liquors in taste haue a sharpnes, a Rosiny sauour.

1562 W. Turner Herball (1568) ii. 89 A tede is a fat and roseny pece of a pyne or pich tre, which hewen of serueth for torches.

1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 79^v The lyke doe they describe of the fattes, and rosinie substances.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. xiii. 62 Some whole trees are to be seene more sulphurus and roseny than other some.

1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 21 Trees Odorate,..and Trees Rozennie, last longer in their Woods, or Timber, than those above said.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Resinousness, of a Resinous or Rosiny Quality.

1844 N. Amer. Rev. July 226 I now write..by the light of my Columbian candle, namely, an ignited piece of rosiny wood.

1878 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 261/2 The rosiny essences of the pines pervade every pore of his body.

1904 E. Nesbit Phoenix & Carpet i. 4 The rosiny fire-lighters that smell so nice.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xi. [Sirens] 271 Remember: rosiny ropes, ships' lanterns.

1992 Gramophone Jan. 60/2 A rival version of Schnittke's First Cello Concerto... A typical example of its ascents to the rosiny regions of the A string.

2003 J. Whorton Approximately Heaven xviii. 108 I picked a few [pine needles] up to examine... The smell was rich and rosiny.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xi. 52 The soile is of a rosennie clay.

1690 W. Temple Ess. Gardens of Epicurus in Wks. (1720) I. 182 Of all sorts of Soil, the best is that upon a Sandy Gravel, or a Rosiny Sand.

1808 T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. County of Bedford vii. 379 If wet falls immediately after sowing on binding rosiny land, or such as is inclined to run into a battery state, the shoots of the barley are unable to break the incrustation on the surface.