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Rosat(e, -ait, -et, n.¹ Also: -ett, -eit, -it, -ot; -ad; -ert; rozet; rossate, -ait, -at(t, -et(t, -it; roiset(t, roisset, royssit; roussit. [Altered form of ME and e.m.E. rosin Rosen n.] Rosin, or resin. Also attrib. 1449 Exch. R. V 338.]
[Pro ferro, plumbo, cera, roseto, et canubio(a) 1469 Ayr B. Ct. 14 Dec.
Awand for 1 stane of rosat … ii s. 1482 Acta Aud. 109/1.
A qwerne of rosate of vj stane 1501 Treas. Acc. II 24.
For vij pund of rosait to mak the clath thicht xiiij d. 1507 Ib. III 378.
For roset and nales to the schip in Dumbertane 1507-8 Ib. IV 45.
For roset hardis and stuf ... for the schip 1513 Doug. vi iii 45.
Ful of roset down bet is the fyr tre 1515 Treas. Acc. V 25.
For pik, rosate, and talloun to the saidis botis, and graithing of the gunnyis 1531 Bell. Boece I 136.
He, with birnand flammis of pik, roset and brintstane … withstude his fayis 1538–9 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 257.
For certane walx and roset to the masonis to be symond c1575 Balfour Pract. 88.
Twentie four peices of rozet is a tun 1587 Ayr B. Acc. 156.
Expenssis sustenit in the burning of the witche … in candillis, hir meit and drink, pyk barrellis, colis, rosat, heddir, treis and utheris necessaris 15.. Bk. Dean Lismore 61.
Half pund of rosad cost plak 1601 Dundee Shipping P. 72.
For ane cane of oyllei to the rosit 1621 Edinb. Test. LI 77b.
Roset at sextein schillingis tua pennies the stane wecht 1647 Ib. LXIII 119.
Rosot 1652 Stirling B. Rec. II 315.
For coalls, rosett and vineger and flowres to clens the counsell house efter the Inglish prisoners went out of it 1676 Cunningham Diary 72.
For roseit to my white horse cheek 1677 Edinb. B. Rec. X 325.
[No] inhabitants to keep any powder lint … rosit or any other combustable matter in there housses 1678 Sc. Ant. I 6.
Rozet 1678 Stirling Common Good 123.
When the Maister of Haldun was made burges the clerk gott ane peice gaze to putt his waxe and roset throw(b) 1675 Cunningham Diary 57.
For rosert to a horse legg(c) 1494 Treas. Acc. I 252.
Rossate 1507 Rentale Dunkeld. 204.
Rossait 1539 Treas. Acc. VII 345.
For expens debursit … upoun colis, petis, wyre, walkis, tello, rosset, and uthir expens … upoun the making of twa new muldis 1590 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 394.
ij li. off rosset to burne in the kirk 1596 Elgin Rec. II 45.
Scho maid the same [plaster] of swynis sawine, rossat [etc.] 1597 Bk. Rates 9b.
Inuarte Custumes. … Rosset the stane, xx s. 1605–6 Montrose Treas. Acc. 2.
Rossett 1610 Brechin Test. II 86.
Fyue stane rossit pryce v lib. 1616 Mylne Master Masons 106.
For … stencing the covering for wax and hardis to clois the coverture with rosset and brunstane 1681 Blackness Customs 13b.
Tua caicks rossatt of four hundretht pund weycht(d) 1586 Edinb. Test. XV 132.
Thrie stane weycht & ane half of roiset sauld for xlij s. 1587 Ib. XVII 206.
Four stane of roisset at x s. the stane 1627 Reg. Privy C. 2 Ser. II 10.
Roisett 1632 Brechin Test. V 56.
Tua stanis royssit pryce liij s.(e) 1631 Brechin Test. V 51b.
Tua stanis and four pund roussit pryce xl s.attrib. 1513 Doug. vi iii 113.
A huge munge … Of dry ayk schydis and fat roset treys 1566 Treas. Acc. XI 518.
For careing of rosett luntis … to Leitht

b. ? A particular kind of rosin, or ? a cake or lump of rosin. But perh. merely pl. in the main sense above. 1540 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 282.
For valx and rosetis to the masonis