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Oil of turpentine   /ɔɪl əv tˈərpəntˌaɪn/   Listen
Oil of turpentine

noun
1.
Volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally.  Synonyms: spirit of turpentine, turpentine, turps.






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"Oil of turpentine" Quotes from Famous Books



... and fifty miles east to west, say half as much north to south—about a thousand square miles in whole—of metalliferous, coniferous, and Ghostiferous mountain, fluent, and diffluent for us, both in mediaeval and recent times, with the most Essential oil of Turpentine, and Myrrh or Frankincense of temper and imagination, which may be typified by it, producible in Germany; especially if we think how the more delicate uses of Rosin, as indispensable to the Fiddle-bow, have developed themselves, from the days of St. Elizabeth of Marburg to ...
— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin



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