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Oil

noun

A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.

Oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist. Synonyms: oil color, oil colour.

A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons. Synonyms: crude, crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil.

Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants. Synonym: vegetable oil.

verb

(past & past part. oiled; pres. part. oiling)

Cover with oil, as if by rubbing.

Administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing. Synonyms: anele, anoint, embrocate, inunct.

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"Oil" Quotes from Famous Books

... of decency. Some of the bolder among them entered the house, roamed through kitchen, parlor, library, bedrooms. One drunken lout smashed the rare violincello, another brought the gilded harp out into the barnyard and used it as a gridiron on which to roast a confiscated pig. The oil portrait of Blennerhassett, set up as a target, was riddled ...

— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable

... don't talk of oil—I have the taste still in my mouth after the Pyrennean cookery! Oh! Ethel, you would have been wild with delight ...

— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

... of the skin may be relieved by the inunction of the skin with cottonseed or cocoanut oil. For severe pain in the small of the back, rubbing with soap liniment or alcohol will ...

— The Four Epochs of Woman's Life • Anna M. Galbraith

... the information he gave them, that besides a Spanish schooner, an English vessel, called the Thomas of Liverpool, was also lying in the first Brass river, which Mr. Gun said was frequented by Liverpool traders for palm oil. Full of joy at this intelligence, they passed on to a little artificial creek, where they were desired to wait till the king's pleasure respecting them should be known. They were afterwards drawn in a canoe over ooze and mud to a house, where, if the countenance ...

— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish

... Mr. Medderbrook. "I haven't given the printer final orders yet and if you prefer something else I'll make it Oil-Well stock. It is all the same to me. The property will produce just as much oil as ...

— Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective • Ellis Parker Butler

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