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Oil   /ɔɪl/   Listen
Oil

noun
1.
A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.
2.
Oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist.  Synonyms: oil color, oil colour.
3.
A dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons.  Synonyms: crude, crude oil, fossil oil, petroleum, rock oil.
4.
Any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants.  Synonym: vegetable oil.
verb
(past & past part. oiled; pres. part. oiling)
1.
Cover with oil, as if by rubbing.
2.
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



... a short prayer each went on his way. Nisida, after having given her father the last daily attentions, went up to her room, replenished the oil in the lamp that burned day and night before the Virgin, and, leaning her elbow on the window ledge, divided the branches of jasmine which hung like perfumed curtains, began to gaze out at the sea, and seemed lost in a ...
— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - NISIDA--1825 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... my cold, but it goes on very slowly, which is particularly inconvenient to me at present; but all my writing about it will not put an end to my cough, and yet write I must. To-day I have begun to take violet syrup and a little almond oil, and already I feel relieved, and have again stayed two days in the house. Yesterday morning Herr Raaff came to me again to hear the aria in the second act. The man is as much enamored of his aria as a young passionate lover ever was of his fair one. He sings it the last thing before ...
— The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, V.1. • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

... add up a column of six figures abreast while I was just making a beginning at the right-hand bottom corner. But stupid-looking beings are often good at other things besides arithmetic. I have seen doctors, with very dull faces, who knew all about castor-oil and mustard-plasters, and above you see a picture of a Donkey who ...
— Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy • Frank Richard Stockton

... sign-posts of her development. She had begun to buy them when she had stopped working in colour with a man who had a famous studio in New York. One day she had gone with the man to an exhibition of oil paintings which were infused with a matchless poetry ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young

... perfect is the correspondence between the Sacraments and the method of life where they are the agents, and which they symbolically set forth. There is in each case the material form and the spiritual substance, or energy. Water, chrism, oil, the spoken word, the touch of hands, the sign of the cross, and finally and supremely the bread and wine of the Holy Eucharist. Each a material thing, but each representing, signifying and containing some ...
— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram


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