Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of a resinous body; also, by means of resin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By means, or in the manner, of resin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb By means of, or in the manner, of
resin .
Etymologies
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resinous + -ly
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Examples
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Put you nose right up to the pine tree trunk, inhale deeply, and the resinously woody, strangely cool aroma that you would get would be that of Agraria Balsam.
Archive 2007-01-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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I like amber that way, because I know how it was made, drinking the primeval weather, resinously beading each grain of its rare wood, and dripping with a plash to filter through and around the fallen cones below.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various
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A homely chime of bells was repeated from the town; a ship's fast strained resinously with the changing tide.
Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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