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are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.

A qualitative test for cottonseed oil, based on the fact this oil imparts a maroon color to an alcoholic solution of silver nitrate.

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

To spoil; to corrupt. Wright.

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Swift.

To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust. Sherwood.

A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.

To make foul; to soil.

To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.

To elude, or evade by craft; to foil. [Obs.] When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage. Shak.

s the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound. The bellowing voice of boiling seas. Dryden.

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt. Bemired and benighted in the dog. Burke.

The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa.

name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.

its odor is aromatic; its taste is pungent, and somewhat acidulous. -- Benzoic aldehyde, oil of bitter almonds; the aldehyde, C6H5.CHO, intermediate in composition between benzoic or benzyl alcohol, and benzoic acid. It is a thin colorless liquid.

A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. [Formerly written also benzule.]

TO make foul; to soil; to defile. [Obs.] Milton.