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🧊 A sticky resin 🧊 To apply resin
to rosin

to rosin

1 8.3
To rub a violin bow with a sticky solid so it grips the strings
  • verb
  • /ˈrɑːzɪn/
translation icon : colofonia
  • On the couch, RACHEL (12), a mature, beautiful Black girl, rosins her bow.
  • rosin her bow

Examples

  • -Rosining the bow.

    Music of the Heart (1999)

  • -Rosining the bow.

    Music of the Heart (1999)

  • Johnny, rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard....

    Blog text (19)

  • The beginners sit on the floor and rosin their bows.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Thirty-three excited kids from Roberta's different classes chat, tune their violins, and rosin their bows.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Roberta rosins her bow, standing in front of ten kids—third through fifth grade—who sit on the floor next to their violin cases.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Before starting the performance, she always takes a moment to rosin her bow.

  • Every musician knows it's important to rosin the bow for better sound quality.

  • After tuning her violin, he made sure to rosin the bow thoroughly.

Compounds

rosin bag
  • US
1 8.1

A small bag with powder that pitchers use to make their hands less slippery

Surface Forms

rosin infinitive
rosined past
rosined past participle
rosining present participle
rosins third person singular

Etymology

The verb rosin comes from the noun rosin, which itself comes from Latin resina meaning 'resin' or sticky tree juice. So to 'rosin' a bow simply means to put that sticky substance on it so the bow can grip the strings and make a clear sound.