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Oil

noun

A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.

Oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist. Synonyms: oil color, oil colour.

A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons. Synonyms: crude, crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil.

Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants. Synonym: vegetable oil.

verb

(past & past part. oiled; pres. part. oiling)

Cover with oil, as if by rubbing.

Administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing. Synonyms: anele, anoint, embrocate, inunct.

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"Oil" Quotes from Famous Books

... always expressed himself with unmistakable clearness on matters pertaining to his profession. I was walking down the main street of a seafaring town some years ago, when I saw a group of people standing at a window looking at an oil-painting of a large, square-rigged ship which had been caught in a squall. The royals and top-gallant sails had been let fly, and they were supposed to be flapping about as sails will in a squall if the yards ...

— Windjammers and Sea Tramps • Walter Runciman

... man was fortified and ready for fresh exertions, Coventry told him he must try and slip out of the house at the front door: he would lend him a feather and some oil to apply to ...

— Put Yourself in His Place • Charles Reade

... is then lacerated with the thumb-nails and turned back over to join the other parts. The surface is then sprinkled with arar or genevriere powder and dressed with a small cloth bandage, the subsequent dressings consisting of arar powder and oil. During the operation the women in the gallery keep up an unearthly music by means of tumtums, cymbals, and all the kettles and saucepans of the neighborhood, which are brought into requisition for the occasion. This music is accompanied with songs and chants, ...

— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino

... whose names are designated by initial letters. In this unlucky alphabet of dunces, not one of them but was applied to some writer of the day; and the loud clamours these excited could not be appeased by the simplicity of our poet's declaration, that the letters were placed at random: and while his oil could not smooth so turbulent a sea, every one swore to the flying-fish or the tortoise, as he had described them. It was still more serious when the Dunciad appeared. Of that class of authors who depended for a wretched existence on their wages, several were completely ruined, ...

— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

... rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it, and he called the name of that ...

— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey

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