a. and sb. Also 6 terebynthine, -bintine, -thin, 7 teribinthine. [ad. L. terebinthinus, ter(e)bentinus, f. Gr. type *τερεβίνθινος, f. τερέβινθ-ος terebinth: see -INE1. Cf. F. térébenthine turpentine.]
A. adj. 1. Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or allied to the terebinth.
c. 1550. Lloyd, Treas. Health, ¶ iij. Make a coife or cappe of waxe terebintine … and put it vpon the head.
1555. W. Watreman, Fardle Facions, II. vii. 159. The fruicte of the Terebinthine tree.
1658. Phillips, Terebinthine,… belonging to the Terebinth, i. the Turpentine tree.
1838. Jackson, Krummacher’s Elisha, i. 2. Under the shade of the terebinthine groves of Mamre.
1846. Keightley, Notes Virg., Flora, 393. It appears that it [a tree] was of the terebinthine, and not of the coniferous family.
2. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of turpentine; turpentinic, turpentiny.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Terebinthine, of or belonging to turpentine, or the tree out of which it issues.
1664. Evelyn, Sylva, 55. These knots … are well impregnated with that Terebinthine and Resinous matter, which … preserves them so long from putrifaction.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 291. Copayba … hath a bitter, hot, Terebinthine Taste.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 191. Its knots and roots being full of the terebenthine oil.
1880. Scribner’s Mag., Feb., 505. Pine rails … spicing the air with their terebinthine perfume.
B. sb. (elliptical uses of the adj.)
† 1. (= Terebinthine tree.) The terebinth. Obs.
[c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 226. Nim ða wyrt þe hatte on suþerne terebintina, swa micel swa ele berʓe.]
1513. Douglas, Æneis, X. iii. 39. Mair semely … than amyd the blak terebynthine Growis by Orycia, and as the geit dois schyne.
† 2. (= Terebinthine resin: cf. TEREBINTHINA.) Turpentine. Obs.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, VI. xcii. 776. The Rosen [of the larch] is called … in Douche … Termenthiin, or Terbenthiin, that is to say, Terebinthin, or Turpentyn.
1605. Timme, Quersit., I. xiii. 64. Out of teribinthine … a mercuriall spirit … may bee … extracted.
1725. Sloane, Jamaica, II. 90. Triangular berries … smelling like terebinthine.
So Terebinthinous, † Terebinthious adjs.
1718. J. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos. (1730), II. xxiii. § 29. The wonderful Particulars of Flowers, such as … their Store-Houses of slimy and terebinthious Matters.
1840. F. D. Bennett, Whaling Voy., II. 352. Every part of the tree has … terebinthinous odour.
1869. Eng. Mech., 24 Dec., 354/2. Produced by a … species of Aphis on a terebinthinous plant.
