in Pharmacy, black resin, or turpentine, boiled in water, and afterwards dried; or, which is still better, the caput mortuum remaining after the distillation of the ethereal oil, being further urged by a more intense and long continued fire.—It receives its name of colophonia, from Colophon, a city of Ionia, because the best was formerly brought from thence. Two sorts are mentioned in ancient writings; the one dry, the other in a liquid state. The latter seems to have been liquid pitch, which is the crude resin of the pine brought from Colophon; the other was called resina friata, and consisted only of the former deprived of its humus parts.