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rosining

  • present participle
    of rosin.
    rosin
    noun
    the yellowish to amber, translucent, hard, brittle, fragmented resin left after distilling the oil of turpentine from the crude oleoresin of the pine: used chiefly in making varnishes, varnish and paint driers, printing inks, and for rubbing on the bows of such string instruments as the violin.

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She’ll spend too much time rosining her bow, and not enough tuning the strings.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

I hand him the viola and start rosining the bow.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

In the opposite corner stood Mop, rosining his bow and looking just the same as ever. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy

With practised skill he rapidly tightened the four strings into harmony; then, after carefully rosining the bow, rasped it with uncertain touch across them.

From The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay