resinousadj.

1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 87 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. In Latine Pix Arida, and commonly Pix Græca, whiche oughte to bee pure, fatte, odoriferous, resinous, of reddyshe coloure.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 51 As all resinous bodies, Turpentine, Pitch, and Frankincense. View more context for this quotation

1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. vii. 282/1 This Tincture is only the Resinous parts of the Balsam dissolved in the Spirit of Wine.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Quinquina The resinous febrifugious substance of this Barke.

1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. i. i. 15 It has been proposed to divide the colouring particles into extractive and resinous.

1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 288 Sulphuric acid..dissolves the corydalina, and leaves the green resinous matter.

1885 C. S. Sargent Woods of U.S. 120 The resinous exudation of this species.

1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) i. 42 The object of the refining is..to remove impurities which would affect the values of the fractions, such as tarry or resinous substances.

1947 J. H. Collins in P. I. Smith Pract. Plastics v. 55/2 The first product, methylene di-phenyl di-imide, polymerizes to a resinous product when heated.

2001 Daily Tel. 3 Jan. 20/7 Another natural approach is to take mastika capsules, containing resinous mastic gum.

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xxxvi. 1170 The great Cedar is a very bigge and high tree, not onely excelling all other resinous trees.., but in his tallnes and largenes, farre surmounting al other trees.

1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks i. ii. 15 The Bark of Oak it self is also Resinous.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 146 The Fruit..more resinous, and falls easily when ripe.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 692/2 Made of the most porous and resinous wood to be found.

1808 S. Young in Med. Jrnl. 19 567 A convenient slip of firm linen, uniformly covered by a resinous plaster.

1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 36 The root is biennial, thick, fleshy, and resinous.

1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §51 A peculiar form of woody fibre is found in the stems of resinous woods.

1975 J. McPhee Survival of Bark Canoe 11 The bark of the white birch was amazing stuff—strong, resinous, and waterproof.

2003 A. Proulx Close Range (new ed.) 274 Lifting his head in the heated noon to take the air scented with resinous lodgepole.

1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. cxxxi. 485 It hath many white fibres and a resinous smell.

1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 214 It is in brittle fragments of an almost black colour, having a shining resinous fracture.

1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 550 Has a resinous and aromatic smell.

1884 R. C. Praed Zéro xiii The atmosphere was pungent with a resinous odour.

1929 W. F. Foshag in G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky ii. iv. 244 Colophonite, a brown-black garnet, characterized by a resinous luster.

1935 ‘A. Bridge’ Illyrian Spring xx. 266 The air was full of the faint resinous fragrance of the cypresses.

2004 Outdoor Projects Summer 58/1 A poured resinous finish would not quite suit the fine lines of this furniture.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 106 Insteed of a resinous smoak or fume, it yielded a very bituminous one.

1860 C. Dickens Uncommerc. Traveller in All Year Round 13 Oct. 13/2 I can smell the heavy resinous incense as I pass the church.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 175 The resinous atmosphere Gives hint of pitch.

1913 C. Hallock Angler's Reminisc. x. 57 The atmosphere was stifling and intensely hot; pungent with resinous fumes.

1998 Prospect Mar. 6/2 For a man..who presumably wrote the entire book enveloped in a fug of resinous smoke, his precise recall of events and conversations is truly amazing.

1734 tr. C. F. de C. Du Fay in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 264 This Principle is, that there are two distinct Electricities, very different from one another; one of which I call vitreous Electricity [Fr. électricité vitrée], and the other resinous Electricity [Fr. électricité résineuse].

1742 J. T. Desaguliers Diss. Electr. 41 The Air being electrical of a vitreous Electricity, and sulphur of a resinous Electricity.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 28 Thunder was not then mere Electricity, vitreous or resinous.

1860 R. W. Emerson Wealth in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 102 The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity.

1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 94 A superficial electrification on the inner surface, the total amount of which will be resinous.

1910 E. T. Whittaker Hist. Theories Aether & Electr. vii. 230 When a circuit s moves in the field due to currents, the velocity of the vitreous charges in s is..not equal and opposite to that of the resinous charges.

2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. & Technol. 229/3 Du Fay's theory distinguishes two types of electricity, which he calls vitreous and resinous, that are responsible for the phenomena of attraction and repulsion.

1813 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Apr. 280/2 It deflagrates, and leaves a resinous looking substance on the water.

1882 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 124 253 A very little of a resinous-looking mineral could be seen.

2003 P. E. McGovern Anc. Wine iii. 53 This procedure, yielding 6–7 milligrams of a resinous-looking solid, drew out the ancient organic molecules.

1804 J. Parkinson Org. Remains Former World I. xxxvi. 348 Its lines are softened down, by its assuming this resinous-like appearance.

1911 H. A. Gardner & J. A. Schaeffer Anal. Paints & Painting Materials (2008) iii. 80 The mineral matter present frequently exists in combination with the bituminous matter forming resinous-like compounds.

1998 L. C. Walker N. Amer. Forests ii. 45 Heat of the sun may open cones on cold days, water in the cone scales regulating the dissolution of the resinous-like coating.