rosiny, a.
(ˈrɒzɪnɪ)
Also 6 rosinie, 7 roziny; 6–7 roseny, 7 ros-, rozenny, -ie.
[f. rosin n.]
1. Full of rosin; resinous.
| 1562 Turner Herbal ii. (1568) 89 A tede is a fat and roseny pece of a pyne or pich tre, which hewen of serueth for torches. 1576 G. Baker Jewell of Health 80 The lyke doe they describe of the fattes and rosinie substances. 1605 Timme Quersit. i. xiii. 62 Some whole trees are to be seene more sulphurus and roseny than other some. 1638 Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1650) 4 Trees Odorate,..and Trees Rozennie, last longer in their Woods, or Timber, than those abovesaid. 1669 [see resinaceous]. 1904 E. Nesbit Phœnix & Carpet i. 4 The rosiny fire-lighters that smell so nice. |
† 2. Of soil: Resembling, having the colour of, rosin. Obs. (Cf. rosilly a.)
| 1613 Purchas Pilgrimage i. xi. (1614) 59 The soile is of a rosennie clay. 1685 Temple Ess. Gardening Wks. 1720 I. 182 Of all sorts of Soil, the best is that upon a Sandy Gravel, or a Rosiny Sand. |