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of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substa…

See Guacharo.

Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering flooors, etc.

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

One who deals in oils.

The business, the place of business, or the goods, of a maker of, or dealer in, oils.

The quality of being oily. Bacon.

A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediæval fortifications.

One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils and pickles.

The buffalo nut. See Buffalo nut, under Buffalo.

Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.

Cloth made waterproof by oil.

A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.

Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the nature or qualities of oil; unctuous; oleaginous; as, oily matter or substance. Bacon.

To coil together. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A plane or arched surface for sustaining bodies by its movement through the air; a spread wing, as of a bird.

terranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.

Any one of various soils found in arid and semiarid regions, containing an unusual amount of soluble mineral salts which effloresce in the form of a powder or crust (usually white) in dry weather following rains or irrigation. The basis of these salts is mainly soda with a smaller amount of potash, and usually a little…

The anoint with oil. [Obs.] Holinshed.

A heavy green oil (partially solidifying on cooling), which distills over from coal tar at a temperature above 270º. It is the principal source of anthracene.