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Example sentences for "rosin"

Lexicographically close words:
rosewater; rosewood; rosier; rosiest; rosily; rosined; rosiness; rosolic; rost; rosted
  1. Bung up the bottles, and seal or rosin the tops.

  2. Cut the wax into small pieces, and melt it in a pipkin, with the rosin pounded very fine.

  3. Be careful not to shake the contents, but leave all the sediment behind in the jug; cork well, and either seal or rosin the cork, so as perfectly to exclude the air.

  4. The kind that may be used without any special equipment has a tin lid that fits into a groove and is fastened in place with rosin or sealing wax.

  5. The old-style jars had a groove into which the cover fit, and melted sealing wax or rosin was poured into the space surrounding the cover.

  6. A little rosin may be added and a thick sprinkling of cut wire.

  7. Take equal parts of gum damar and white rosin and just enough Persian blue to color it.

  8. One of them--even at this crucial moment Yerby noticed it with a pang of regretful despair--held noiseless on his knee a violin, and more than once addressed himself seriously to rubbing rosin over the bow.

  9. He handled the bow with a blunt, clumsy hand that augured little of delicate skill, and he seemed from his diligence to think that rosin is what makes a fiddle play.

  10. Boil 3 parts powdered rosin for sometime with 1 part of caustic soda and 5 parts of water; then stir into the soap formed one half its weight of plaster of Paris, and use immediately.

  11. Place it, together with several small pieces of rosin and a little borax or carbonate of soda, in a small blacklead crucible, and heat to very bright redness over a good fire.

  12. Although we could not pay the seams, having nothing to melt our rosin in, we succeeded in making her tolerably tight.

  13. The seams were payed with a composition of the rosin that had been saved from the wreck, and train oil, boiled to a consistence in the kettles of the Indians.

  14. Dem old wimmens made pine rosin pills from de pine rosin what drapped from de pine trees and give de pills to de folks to take fer de back ache.

  15. Rosin made in an ointment is also good to relieve some cases.

  16. Bees Wax 1 ounce Rosin 1 ounce Camphor Gum 1 ounce Lard about the size of an egg.

  17. Melt three ounces of rosin plaster and add one-half ounce of extract of belladonna.

  18. Rosin 1 ounce Beeswax 1 ounce Mutton Tallow 4 ounces Copper Acetate 1 dram Melt the rosin, tallow and wax together, then add the copper acetate, stir until cool.

  19. For white bleaching the rosin soap is omitted, soda ash alone being employed.

  20. When I am dead and laid out on the counter, A voice you will hear from below, Singing out brandy and water To drink to old Rosin the Beau (ter.

  21. After the oakum is driven in very hard, hot melted pitch or rosin is poured into the groove, to keep the water from rotting it.

  22. Wax and rosin appear to have been commonly used before that period; and the Poles still substitute an unctuous clay for the same purpose for the vessels on their navigable rivers.

  23. Waxed silk is wound round both ends of the hair to form a strong knot, which is afterwards covered with melted rosin and hardens with the hair into a solid mass.

  24. The particles of rosin cling to the scales of the epithelium, thus accentuating the projections and the energy of the attack or "bite" upon the strings.

  25. Thus, in combining tin and lead, rosin or grease is usually put on the surface of the melting metals, the carbon produced by the decomposition of which protects them, in most cases, sufficiently from oxidisement.

  26. Whenever the rosin is dissolved, one pound and three quarters of dry brown soap, of the best quality, cut into slices, is to be introduced cautiously, for its water of combination causes a violent intumescence.

  27. Yellow rosin contains some water, which black rosin does not.

  28. Gay Lussac uses for this purpose a cylindrical vessel or drum of copper, of a capacity of about 110 litres, having its inside covered with a rosin and wax cement.

  29. The bituminous or black cement for bottle corks consists of pitch hardened by the addition of rosin and brick-dust.

  30. The riband of lead thus applied is finally equalized by being brought into partial fusion with the plumber's conical iron heated to redness; the contact of air being prevented by sprinkling rosin over the surface.

  31. The proportion of rosin is usually from one-third to one-fourth the weight of the tallow.

  32. At the same time heat half a part of rosin with the requisite quantity of weak potash lye for dissolving the rosin; mix both solutions together, and pour into them one part of alum dissolved in a little water.

  33. To six quarts of linseed oil thus treated, six pounds of rosin should be gradually added, as soon as the froth of the ebullition has subsided.

  34. If white rosin be substituted for the mastick, a cheaper composition will be obtained, which answers nearly as well; 2 oz.

  35. The varnish ought always to be made harder in summer than in winter, and it will become so if it be suffered to boil longer, or if a greater proportion of the asphaltum or brown rosin be used.

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

  37. Taking a specimen of very clear light-colored rosin from a shelf in the still-house, I asked him what that quality was worth.

  38. By this time we had reached the still, and directing his attention to the enormous quantity of rosin that had been run into the pit which I have spoken of, I asked him why he threw so much valuable material away.

  39. Rosin has been tried in pyrotechny, but is of no use: a solution of it in spirit will bind stars; but it renders them white and smoky.

  40. So dirty were they, that it was said Dooble Sanny never required to carry any rosin with him for fiddler's need, his own fingers having always enough upon them for one bow at least.

  41. Solder and rosin can now be put on the full length of the joint.

  42. Take some powdered rosin and cover the filed end of the ferrule with molten solder using the rosin as a flux.

  43. Rosin is put into this tube and is easily sprinkled on work when needed.

  44. Fifth, put 6 or 8 drops of solder and a piece of rosin the size of a chestnut on an ordinary red brick.

  45. Rosin is easily carried and applied and is by far the best to use in regular work.

  46. With the hot soldering iron proceed to tin the brass ferrule, as explained before, with 1/2 and 1/2 solder, using rosin as a flux.

  47. Take some rosin and put it on the exposed part of the ferrule.

  48. Apply the rosin to the joint, then with the heated iron and some solder tack the seam on the top, then on the bottom and middle.

  49. Sixth, take the hot iron and melt the solder and rosin on the brick.

  50. Rosin is purchased by the pound and comes in chunks.

  51. Their clothing is full of rosin and never wears out.

  52. Rosin size, the most widely used size, is produced from rosin by cooking with soda ash, which produces a soft soap.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rosin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    gum; plastic; resin