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A genus of trees including the olive.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Oleaceæ), mostly trees and shrubs, of which the olive is the type. It includes also the ash, the lilac, the true jasmine, and fringe tree.

Having the nature or qualities of oil; oily; unctuous.

Oiliness. Boyle.

A soft ointment prepared from oil. Dunglison.

A beautiful evergreen shrub of the Dogbane family, having clusters of fragrant red or white flowers. It is native of the East Indies, but the red variety has become common in the south of Europe. Called also rosebay, rose laurel, and South-sea rose.

One of several alkaloids found in the leaves of the oleander.

The wild olive tree (Olea Europea, var. sylvestris).

A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Creoles. -- n.

One who writes epistles; a correspondent. Mary Cowden Clarke.

A salt of linoleic acid.

Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.

Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.

A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.

Combined or impregnated with camphor. Camphorated oil, an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.

A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.

A small oleaceous tree (Chionanthus virginica), of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.

Laurelia Novæ Zelandiæ. -- Portugal laurel, the Prunus Lusitanica. -- Rose laurel, the oleander. See Oleander. -- Sheep laurel, a poisonous shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, smaller than the mountain laurel, and with smaller and redder flowers. -- Spurge laurel, Daphne Laureola. -- West Indian laurel, Prunus occidental…

yields the grass oil used in perfumery. -- Lemon sole (Zoöl.), a yellow European sole (Solea aurantiaca). -- Salts of lemon (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium oxalate and contains no citric acid, which is the characteristic acid of lemon; -- called also…