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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



1,665 words match “OIL”

CONYRINE n.
A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.
COOK v.
To prepare, as food, by boiling, roasting, baking, broiling, etc.; to make suitable for eating, by the agency of fire or heat.
COP n.
A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
COPE n.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in derbyshire, England.
COPPER n. 2 definitions
A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
COPPER-BOTTOMED a.
Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
COPRA n.
The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]
CORACLE n.
A boat made by covering a wicker frame with leather or oilcloth. It was used by the ancient Britons, and is still used by fisherman in Wales and some parts of Ireland. Also, a similar boat used in Thibet and in Egypt.
CORE n.
The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Byron.
CORIDINE n.
A colorless or yellowish oil, C10H15N, of a leathery odor, occuring in coal tar, Dippel's oil, tobacco smoke, etc., regarded as an organic base, homologous with pyridine. Also, one of a series of metameric compounds of which coridine is a type. [Written also corindine.]
CORPORAL a.
Belonging or relating to the body; bodily. "Past corporal toil." Shak. Pillories and other corporal infections. Milton. Corporal punishment (law), punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment.
CORRUPT a. 2 definitions
Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles.
COSHERING n.
A feudal prerogative of the lord of the soil entitling him to lodging and food at his tenant's house. Burrill. Sometimes he contrived, in deflance of the law, to live by coshering, that is to say, by quartering himself on the old tentants of his family, who, wretched as was their own condition, could not refuse a porti…
COST n.
d; detriment; pain; suffering. I know thy trains, Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils. Milton.
COTTONSEED MEAL n.
A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.
COUNTERBUFF n.
A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.
COUNTERDRAW v.
To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.
COUNTERSTOCK n.
See Counterfoil.
COUNTERTURN n.
The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. Dryden.
COVER CROP n.
A catch crop planted, esp. in orchards. as a protection to the soil in winter, as well as for the benefit of the soil when plowed under in spring.
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