n. [ F. résine, L. resina; cf. Gr. "rhti`nh Cf. Rosin.] Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin). [1913 Webster]

☞ Resins exude from trees in combination with essential oils, gums, etc., and in a liquid or semiliquid state. They are composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, and they consist primarily of polymerized small molecules having carboxylic groups. Copal, mastic, guaiacum, and colophony or pine resin, are some of them. When mixed with gum, they form the gum resins, like asafetida and gamboge; mixed with essential oils, they form balsams, or oleoresins. They are also used in making varnishes. [1913 Webster]

2. Any of various polymeric substance resembling the natural resins[1], prepared synthetically; -- they are used, especially in particulate form, in research and industry for their property of specifically absorbing or adsorbing substances of particular types; they are especially useful in separation processes such as chromatography; as, an ion-exchange resin. [PJC]

Highgate resin (Min.), a fossil resin resembling copal, occuring in blue clay at Highgate, near London. --
Resin bush (Bot.), a low composite shrub (Euryops speciosissimus) of South Africa, having smooth pinnately parted leaves and abounding in resin. [1913 Webster]

a. Having the quality of resin; resinous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) Any one of the salts the resinic acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, resin; as, the resinic acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Resin + -ferous: cf. F. résinifère. ] Yielding resin; as, a resiniferous tree or vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Resin + -form: cf. F. résiniforme. ] Having the form of resin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Elec.) Containing or exhibiting resinous electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat like resin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. resinous: cf. F. résineux. See Resin. ] Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Resinous electricity (Elec.), electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By means, or in the manner, of resin. [ 1913 Webster ]