What is "resinous"

Usage examples of "resinous".

Furthermore, the resinous parts of these balsamic oils, as they dry upon the sore or wound, seal it up, and effectually exclude all noxious air.

If an incision is made in the bark of the stems, and the crown of the root, at the commencement of spring, a resinous gum exudes with a special aromatic flavour as of musk or benzoin, for either of which it can be substituted.

Hope was very much like the smell of ponds on Earth, with a few dissonant olfactory notesand more of another smell, brought from ahead of them on a faint breeze, a sort resinous plangency and dry dustiness: a smell of austerely dry places.

By combining their individual intelligences they succeed in coping with adverse circumstances, even quite unforeseen and unusual, like those bees of the Paris Exhibition which fastened with their resinous propolis the shutter to a glass-plate fitted in the wall of their hive.

And then there was the propolis, a resinous substance bees collect from tree buds and use to keep the hive walls smooth and waterproof.

Terran counterpart, as the latter used volatile fluids instead of resinous oils, and many Terran models depended on pyrophoric rare-earth surfaces rather than on flint.

Every now and then, bringing with him a gust of resinous smell, a white-clad machinist will come in with a basketful of crude, unwrought little images, and will turn them out upon the table from which we carvers select them.

They contain tannin, and a resinous camphire, which is common to most of the mints affording essential oils.

Her hair was freshly braided into cornrows with pearls and silver beads that jarred musically when she moved, and perfumed with myrrh for a resinous, woodsy smell.

Erlien tapped his weapon hilt, the fringes on his buckskins the only ripple in resinous air.

Bonfires were lighted, and the air smelled of resinous split boards, makhorka, dried fish dumped in stacks at the nearby docks, and the fresh wind of the Volga.

She felt the tingle of the milkwood buds she had eaten, and the resinous smoke she had inhaled, suffusing her blood.

Furthermore, the resinous parts of these balsamic oils, as they dry upon the sore or wound, seal it up, and effectually exclude all noxious air.

These curious bugs give forth a resinous substance that envelops the eggs and glues them to the twigs whose juices the bug sucks out.

As crops in the sun grew fatter, flowered, more densely aromatic, as resinous breezes swept out of the gulches to scent the town day and night, the sky over Vineland County, which had allowed the bringing of life, now began to reveal a potential for destroying it.