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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Colophony

/(kŏl"ō̇*fō*ny̆ [or] kō̇*lŏf"ō̇*ny̆; 277)/ · Col·o·pho·ny · IPA

01 n. Rosin.

[Gr. 'h kolofwni`a (sc. "rhti`nh resin, gum) resin, fr. Kolofw`nios of or from Colophon in Ionia.]

1.
Rosin.

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