rosin soap | канифольное мыло (n. A soap made of rosin and an alkali, as soda or potash, or by boiling with an alkaline carbonate and evaporating to dryness. It is worthless except when mixed with tallow soap, or palm-oil soap, or with both, as in the common yellow soap of commerce. See soap. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Alexander Demidov) |