resinous

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Definition of resinous

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adj

Of or relating to resin.

“Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .”

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adj

Of or relating to resin.

“Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .”
(dated)Negative (of electric charge).

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Borrowed from Middle French résineux; cf. Latin resinosus. By surface analysis, resin + -ous.

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