Definition of "rosining" [rosining]

• Present participle of rosin. (verb)

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• "Are we saving our skins here, or are we just rosining our bows and shining up our fiddles?"
• "In the opposite corner stood Mop, rosining his bow and looking just the same as ever."
• "It is only your pseudo-saint, who cuddles himself for the pulpit and the platform, and keeps the safety-valve down with midnight sittings while "rosining up" the furnaces with strong coffee, that will come to grief by collapse of flues."