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A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy. A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. I. Taylor.

Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.

An oily liquid derived from parsley.

n or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.

A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

An oily liquid substance, C8H13O2N, the chief alkaloid of the betel nut, to which the latter owes its anthelmintic action.

Sandy; as, arenarious soil.

Consisting of, or containing, clay and sand, as a soil.

tic balsam. Aromatic compound (Chem.), one of a large class of organic substances, as the oils of bitter almonds, wintergreen, and turpentine, the balsams, camphors, etc., many of which have an aromatic odor. They include many of the most important of the carbon compounds and may all be derived from the benzene group,…

A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds. Parr.

A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons.

. This is willingly submitted to by the artisan, who can . . . compensate his additional toil and fatigue. Hume.

A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.

that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. -- Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the aërial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire.…

A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses. [Also written otto and ottar.]

consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects. What cares must then attend the toiling swain. Dryden.

An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.