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administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing

a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water

any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants

administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing

a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water

Any one 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 substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.

To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

Any one 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 substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.

To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

An inflammable fatty liquid, insoluble in water, but soluble in ther, obtained from various animal and vegetable substances; a greenish-brown liquid found in rock or other mineral substance, and very inflammable: called also petroleum.

To lubricate with oil.

Oiler, Oiliness.

A liquid of fatty consistence and unctuous feel, insoluble in water, soluble or not in alcohol, freely soluble in ether, and inflammable. Oils are variously classified into animal, vegetable, and mineral oils according to their source (the mineral oils, are probably of remote animal or vegetable origin); into fixed or fatty (olea pinguia) and volatile or ethereal or essential (olea volatilia, (aetherea, essentialia) oils, the former being permanent, leaving a stain on an absorbent surface, the latter evaporating when exposed to the air and being capable of distillation; and into drying and non-drying (fatty) oils, the former becoming gradually thicker when exposed to the air and finally drying to a varnish, the latter not drying but liable to become rancid on exposure. The volatile oils are of vegetable origin; the fatty oils are of both animal and vegetable origin. Many of the oils, both fixed and volatile, are employed in medicine; see oleum.

A fatty fluid.

The juice from the fruit of the olive-tree: any greasy liquid.

To smear or anoint with oil.

The unctuous juice of the olive; any liquid grease.

To lubricate or anoint with oil.

A greasy liquid, of vegetable or animal origin, insoluble in water.

An unctuous liquid drawn from various animal and vegetable substances.

A highly inflammable fatty liquid expressed or obtained from various animals, from many vegetable substances, and as a natural product from the earth.

To smear or rub over with oil.

A collective name, under which two classes of fluids are included, very different from each other: those belonging to the one class, are viscid, mawkish or almost insipid; those of the other are nearly devoid of viscidity, and are caustic and very volatile. The former are called fat or fixed oils; the latter volatile or essential oils or essences.

An inflammable liquid not miscible with water.

A more or less greasy liquid or viscous substance, of animal or vegetable origin, composed of glycerin combined chemically with an animal or vegetable acid. In a more comprehensive sense the term includes, besides the fluid fixed o's and the volatile o's, the waxes, solid fats, tallows, and mineral hydrocarbons, all of which, though differing widely in physical and chemical characters, possess the property of ready inflammability and are compounds chiefly of carbon and hydrogen. They are also mostly insoluble in water. [Lat.]

Any substance of an oily consistence, such as sulphuric acid (o. of vitriol). [Lat.]

n. [Anglo-Saxon, French, Latin, Greek] An unctuous inflammable liquid expressed or drawn from various animal and vegetable substances.