colophony
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of colophony
1300–50; Middle English colofonie (< Anglo-French ) < Latin Colophōnia ( rēsina ) (resin) of Colophon < Greek Kolophōnía, feminine of Kolophṓnios, equivalent to Kolophṓn Colophon + -ios adj. suffix; see -y 3
Example Sentences
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A mixture of colophony, black pitch, and tar.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
There followed the production of a somewhat different form of match, sticks first dipped in sulphur, and then in a composition of chlorate potash, sulphur, colophony, gum of sugar, and cinnabar for coloring.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
The most celebrated resin bears the name of mani; and of this we saw masses of several hundred-weight, resembling colophony and mastic.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
In some old recipes, virgin wax, calcined asphaltum, gum mastic, amber, colophony, greek pitch, burgundy pitch, black pitch, resin, shoe makers' wax, &c. &c. are mentioned.
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If a thicker consistence is desired, a greater proportion of colophony is added, and it is cast in moulds.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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