rosin

Glasnow said his hand is discolored every time he throws off the mound, in a bullpen workout or a game, because he mixes rosin with a baseball that is rubbed in dirt.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2024

Aaron visited Savannah a few months later and gave Russo a signature, which was placed in a frame with the rosin bag, donut and Sports Illustrated cover showing the record homer.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

Tichenor said he was unable to determine the exact substance, but that based on his training it appeared to be more sticky than rosin.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

This time, it was rosin on his left arm.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

Horses in vaulting acts are always white so that the powdered rosin that makes the performer’s feet stick to their backs won’t show.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Appropriate tests of those ingredients made separately on the skins of volunteers demonstrated that, apart from maceration and mechanical injury, rosins, pitch and smoke-cured wild rubber are the chief irritants.

From Time Magazine Archive

When me puts up tomatoes in the spirit-world, me rosins 'em when they bile.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various

The reaction is rather violent, and yields, in addition to well-defined crystalline substances, amorphous bodies resembling rosins.

From Synthetic Tannins by Georg Grasser

Several fairly successful paints of this type have recently appeared in the market; some of them being made of acid rosins compounded with vegetable oils.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. Gardner

See-sawing, t' fiddler now begins The best that he is able; He rosins t' stick an' screws up t' pins An' jumps up on to t' table, To play that neet.

From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman

The cuíca, a Brazilian friction drum with a rosined stick fastened to its head, repeatedly yawns like a distant lion, while sirens and clanking anvils evoke an urban jungle.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2010

They pulled tin cans along rosined strings behind fat old ladies and grinned at them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the 106 members of the Boston Symphony, like thousands of symphonic musicians all over the U.S., polished their brasswork and rosined their bows for the start of a new season.

From Time Magazine Archive

Asked critics, "Was it made by a pail covered with cowhide sliding on rosined cloth?"

From Time Magazine Archive

The girl seemed to be treading on air, so lightly did her feet touch the rosined back of the ring horse.

From The Circus Boys Across the Continent : or, Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark by Edgar B. P. Darlington

She’ll spend too much time rosining her bow, and not enough tuning the strings.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

I hand him the viola and start rosining the bow.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

With practised skill he rapidly tightened the four strings into harmony; then, after carefully rosining the bow, rasped it with uncertain touch across them.

From The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

In the opposite corner stood Mop, rosining his bow and looking just the same as ever. 

From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy