rosins
- present tense form of rosin (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reaction is rather violent, and yields, in addition to well-defined crystalline substances, amorphous bodies resembling rosins.
From Synthetic Tannins by Grasser, Georg
Several fairly successful paints of this type have recently appeared in the market; some of them being made of acid rosins compounded with vegetable oils.
From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.
When me puts up tomatoes in the spirit-world, me rosins 'em when they bile.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
See-sawing, t' fiddler now begins The best that he is able; He rosins t' stick an' screws up t' pins An' jumps up on to t' table, To play that neet.
From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Moorman, Frederic William
