Definitions for rosin

rosin ros·in

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IPA: /ˈrɒz ɪn/

Rosin is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in rosin (inors).

Definitions for rosin

noun

  1. Chemistry. 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.
  2. resin.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cover or rub with rosin.

Origin of rosin

1300-50; Middle English Old French, variant of resine resin

Examples for rosin

Then take them out, dry the bottles, rosin down the corks close, and set them in dry saw-dust with their necks downward.

In the pit was a quantity of rosin sufficient to fill a thousand barrels.

But rosin was perhaps the first to string all the economic realities together in such staggering form.

To show how it all plays out, rosin spent many months reporting—and, indeed, The End of Men is rigorously researched.

First melt the beeswax and rosin, being careful not to have the fire too hot.

A process of rosin's, not yet published, is more convenient.

“Hell, get out of the way,” one researcher, a biologist who conducted early gender-selection studies, tells rosin.

rosin says her goal is to help men and women learn to navigate these changes, not draw battle lines based on gender.

The rosin melts and spreads over the leaf, varnishing it beautifully.

And I remember the time you fried the beans with rosin instead of lard.

Word Value for rosin
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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