COLOPHONY, noun In pharmacy, black resin or turpentine boiled in water and dried; or the residuum, after distillation of the etherial oil of turpentine, being further urged by a more intense and long continued fire. It is so named from Colophon in Ionia, whence the best was formerly brought.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.