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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,665 words match “OIL”

CINQUEFOIL n. 2 definitions

l foliation having five points or cups, used in windows, panels, etc. Gwilt. Marsh cinquefoil, the Potentilla palustris, a plant with purple flowers which grows in fresh-water marshes.

COIL v. 7 definitions

To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

A testicle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

COTTONSEED OIL n.

A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

COUNTERFOIL n. 2 definitions

That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; - - called also counterstock. [Eng.]

Same as Vetiver oil.

DESPOIL v. 3 definitions

To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of. The clothed earth is then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.…

One who despoils.

Despoliation. [R.]

DIPPEL'S OIL n.

See Bone oil, under Bone.

To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.

DOILY n. 2 definitions

A kind of woolen stuff. [Obs.] "Some doily petticoats." Dryden. A fool and a doily stuff, would now and then find days of grace, and be worn for variety. Congreve.

DROIL n. 3 definitions

Mean labor; toil.[Obs.]

EMBOIL v. 2 definitions

To boil with anger; to effervesce. [Obs.] Spenser.

EMBROIL v. 3 definitions

To throw into confusion or commotion by contention or discord; to entangle in a broil or quarrel; to make confused; to distract; to involve in difficulties by dissension or strife. The royal house embroiled in civil war. Dryden.

One who embroils.

The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet.

To throw into disorder; to disturb. [Obs.] "To engarboil the church." Bp. Montagu.

To take with toils or bring into toils; to insnare. [R.] Entoiled in woofed phantasies. Keats.

ted star whose rays are wavy, instead of straight like those of a mullet. [Written also étoile.] Estoile of eight points, a star which has four straight and four wavy rays. -- Estoile of four points. Same as Cross estoilé, under Cross.