Middle English Dictionary Entry
rō̆sī̆n(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | rō̆sī̆n(e n. Also rosein(e, rosoine, rosen, roising, rasine, rason, russinne. |
| Etymology | AL rō̆sīna, ML rasīna (vars. of L rēsīna) & OF rasin(n)e, raisine, rousine (vars. of resine). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. resin(e n.
1.
(a) A distillate of turpentine, rosin; also, resin; (b) ~ clene (coiled, pured), god (clene) ~, high-grade rosin or resin; red ~, whit (drie) ~.
Associated quotations
a
- (1295) *Acc.Exch.K.R.5/7 [OD col.] : In xvij Ruch' de Rosyn emptis, precium Ruch', x d.
- (1336-7) *Acc.Exch.K.R.19/31.m.5 [OD col.] : In c lb. de Rosyne emptis.
- (1371) Fabric R.Yk.Min.in Sur.Soc.357 : In 10 lb. de rosyn emptis pro eisdem, 20 d.
- (1390) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2314 : Item, pro roseyne empto pro torticis, v d.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.2176 : Thei go be nyhte unto the Myne With pich, with soulphre, and with rosine..A wylde fyr into the depe They caste.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)240b/a : Populus is a tre and..out of þis tree droppeþrosyne..&..this rosyn [L resina] is medicynale for to staunche blood and cesseth swotes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)250a/b : Therebintus..is a tree þat sweteþ rosyne and is bettre þan alle þe oþere, And þe rosyn þer of hatte terrebentina.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)342/10,12 : Anoþer oynement..is clepid mundificatiuum rasina: Recipe rasine, mellis..dissolue þe rosyn [L rasina], hony, & wex togidere.
- (1403) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 2318 : Item, in Russynne ad lampadem, j ob.
- a1425(c1384) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ezek.27.17 : Thei..puttiden forth in thi fayris bawm and hony and oyle and rosyn, or gumme [WB(2): resyn; L resinam].
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)68b : Thou shalt take sum whate of roysyng and an vnce of oyle olyfe and a pounde of rose and stoppe to-gedir in a fessell of glasse..and that ys callid oyle of rosys.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)110/21 : Þis..draweþ oute and clenseþ grete quytter: Take of galbanum, of armonyak, of rosyne, of terbentyne..euen parties.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)39/21 : Tak þe flour of titmeus & stamp it with rosen & anoynte hym & it.
- (1452-4) Grocer Lond.(Kingdon)337 : Item, paye for wex and rosyn for syment, Summa iiij d.
- a1475 Bk.Quint.(Sln 73)25/1 : Al þe hous of þe pacient schal be encensid strongly..wiþ frankencense, mirre, & rosyn, terbentyn, & rewe.
- a1500 Weights in RHS ser.3.41 (Vsp E.9)18 : The Schyppe pownd..By this weyght ys sold copred and grey wax, Poleyn and Rason and Spreuse wax.
- ?a1500 Othea (Hrl 838)136/18 : Fooles take rosen ofte for frankensense.
- -?-(1407) Will in Som.RS 1626 : [Half a c of wax and] Rosyn [to make six great tapers].
b
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)132/4 : Leie an entreet maad of ij parties of whiȝt rosyn [vr. resyn] & oon partie of wex.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)96a/a : Take rosine pured & clene.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)119a/a : Take stafisager..drie rosoine, i. white rosine, ana, euen parties; make ane emplaster wiþ oile & vineger.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)161 : Tak yre, a quarteron of spaynysche code, or of clene roseyn.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)158b/b : Take þe iuys of plaunteyn..rosine coilid, newe wex..seþe hem alle togidere.
- a1500(a1451) Commodities Eng.(LdMisc 593)554 : Owte of Baskone as for Bayon cummythe (1) Iron, (2) Comyn, (3) Lycorys, (4) goode Rosyn, (5) and Safforn.
- a1500 *Lanfranc CP (Wel 397)28b/9 : Ley vpon his herte a plaister of..rede rosyn and barly flour.