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Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil. Oiled silk, silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.

Oak. [Obs.] "A branched ook." Chaucer.

A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings. [U.S.] Cooper.

An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.

To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.] Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. Sir T. Herbert.

That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. [Obs.]

A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.

Antiq.) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.

Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.

tively. The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde.

egs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely. I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails. Shak.

A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.

To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. "A plant of stubborn oak." Dryden.

A string of oakum used in calking.

rsh sound, as by pulling hard on a taut string and quickly releasing it; of a raven, to croak.

people are poisoned by it, if they touch the leaves. See Poison sumac. Called also poison oak, and mercury. -- Poison nut. (Bot.) (a) Nux vomica. (b) The tree which yields this seed (Strychnos Nuxvomica). It is found on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. -- Poison oak (Bot.), the poison ivy; also, the more shrubby Rh…

green, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American silkworm.

A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.