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Cuscus
·add. ·noun A soft grass (Pennisetum typhoideum) found in all tropical regions, used as food for men...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Oil
·vt To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.
II. Oil ·noun Any one...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Oil
Only olive oil seems to have been used among the Hebrews. It was used for many purposes: for anointi...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Oil
Of the numerous substances, animal and vegetable, which were known to the ancients as yielding oil, ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Anthracene oil
·add. ·- A heavy green oil (partially solidifying on cooling), which distills over from coal tar at ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Carron oil
·- A lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds;
— first used...
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Castor oil
·- A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Chr...
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Cottonseed oil
·add. ·- A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (·sp.gr., 0....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dippel's oil
·- ·see Bone oil, under <<Bone>>.
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Fusel oil
·- A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, ·e...
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Gallipoli oil
·- An inferior kind of olive oil, brought from Gallipoli, in Italy.
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Macassar oil
·- A kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair;
— so called because originally obtained from M...
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Marmottes oil
·- A fine oil obtained from the kernel of Prunus brigantiaca. It is used instead of olive or almond ...
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Oleo oil
·add. ·- An oil expressed from certain animal fats (·esp. beef suet), the greater portion of the sol...
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Poonga oil
·- A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pr...
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Roosa oil
·- The East Indian name for grass oil. ·see under <<Grass>>.
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Train oil
·- Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Beaten oil
(Ex. 27:20; 29:40), obtained by pounding olives in a mortar, not by crushing them in a mill. It was ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Oil-tree
(Isa. 41:19; R.V. marg., "oleaster"), Heb. etz shemen, rendered "olive tree" in 1 Kings 6:23, 31, 32...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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dugong oil
n.
an oil obtained in Australia,from Halicore dugong, Gmel., by boiling the superficialfat. A subst...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sweet oil
The common name for olive oil.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cajeputi oil
See kayu-putih
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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mineral oil
See petroleum.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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oil-butt
A name for the black whale.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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oil-barometer
See sympiesometer
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Oil Tree
(Heb. ets shemen). The Hebrew words occur in (Nehemiah 8:15) (Authorized Version "pine branches"), (...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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oil of barley
Strong beer.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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oil of gladness
I will anoint you with the oil of gladness; ironically spoken for, I will beat you.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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oil of stirrup
A dose the cobler gives his wife whenever she is obstropulous.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose