Oil

[ɒɪl] or [ɔɪl]

Definition

(noun.) oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist.

(noun.) a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water.

(verb.) cover with oil, as if by rubbing; 'oil the wooden surface'.

Inputed by Leonard--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

Checker: Melanie

Definition

n. the juice from the fruit of the olive-tree: any greasy liquid.—v.t. to smear or anoint with oil.—ns. Oil′bag a bag or cyst in animals containing oil; Oil′cake a cake made of flax seed from which the oil has been pressed out; Oil′cloth a painted floorcloth; Oil′-col′our a colouring substance mixed with oil; Oil′er one who or that which oils: an oil-can: (coll.) a coat of oilskin; Oil′ery the commodities of an oil-man; Oil′-gas illuminating gas or heating gas made by distilling oil in closed retorts; Oil′iness; Oil′-man one who deals in oils; Oil′-mill a grinding-mill for expressing oil from seeds nuts &c.; Oil′nut the butter-nut of North America; Oil′-paint′ing a picture painted in oil-colours: the art of painting in oil-colours; Oil′-palm a palm whose fruit-pulp yields palm-oil; Oil′-press a machine for expressing oils from seeds or pulp; Oil′skin cloth made waterproof by means of oil: a garment made of oilskin; Oil′-spring a spring whose water contains oily matter: a fissure or area from which petroleum &c. oozes; Oil′stone a fine-grained kind of stone used when wetted with oil for sharpening tools; Oil′-well a boring made for petroleum.—adj. Oil′y consisting of containing or having the qualities of oil: greasy.—Strike oil (see Strike).

Edited by Barbie

Unserious Contents or Definition

To dream of castor oil, denotes that you will seek to overthrow a friend who is secretly abetting your advancement.

To see linseed oil in your dreams, denotes your impetuous extravagance will be checked by the kindly interference of a friend.

To dream of anointing with oil, foretells events in which you will be the particular moving power. Quantities of oil, prognosticates excesses in pleasurable enterprises. For a man to dream that he deals in oil, denotes unsuccessful love making, as he will expect unusual concessions. For a woman to dream that she is anointed with oil, shows that she will be open to indiscreet advances.

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