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† ˈpitch-resin, -rosin Obs. rare. [f. pitch n.1 + resin, rosin; F. poix résine.] The resin or turpentine which exudes from the ‘pitch tree’ (L. picea); = perrosin.
1601Holland Pliny I. 464 The same pitch-rosin [eadem resina] if it be boiled more lightly with water, and be let to run through a strainer, comes to a reddish colour, and is glewie: and thereupon it is called stilled Pitch. Ibid. 465 While it is raw pitch-rosin [dum resina sit], and as it runneth from the tree. |