Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: OIL – OLD-EN
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OIL, v.t.
To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil. Wotton. Swift.
OIL'-BAG, n.
A bag, cyst or gland in animals containing oil.
OIL'-CLOTH, n.
Cloth oiled or painted for covering floors.
OIL'-COL-OR, n.
A color made by grinding a coloring substance in oil. Boyle.
OIL'ED, pp.
Smeared or anointed with oil. Huloet.
OIL'ER, n.
One who deals in oils and pickles.
OIL'-GAS, n.
Inflammable gas procured from oil, and used for lighting streets and apartments in buildings.
OIL'I-NESS, n.
The quality of being oily; unctuousness; greasiness; a quality approaching that of oil. Bacon. Arbuthnot.
OIL'ING, ppr.
Smearing or anointing with oil.
OIL'MAN, n.
One who deals in oils and pickles. Johnson.
OIL'-NUT, n.
The butternut of North America. Carver.
A plant, a species of Ricinus, the Palma Christi, from which is procured caster-oil. Fam. of Plants. Encyc.
OIL'-SHOP, n.
A shop where oils and pickles are sold.
OIL'Y, a.
- Consisting of oil; containing oil; having the qualities of oil; as, oily matter or substance. Bacon.
- Resembling oil; as, an oily appearance.
- Fatty; greasy. Shak.
OIL'Y-GRAIN, n.
A plant. Miller.
OIL'Y-PALM, n.
A tree. Miller.
OINT, v.t. [Fr. oindre, oint; Sp. and Port. untar. The French oindre is formed from the L. ungo, like joindre from jungo.]
To anoint; to smear with an unctuous substance. They oint their naked limbs with mother'd oil. Dryden.
OINT'ED, pp.
Anointed; smeared with an oily or greasy matter.
OINT'ING, ppr.
Anointing.
OINT'MENT, n.
Unguent; any soft, unctuous substance or compound, used for smearing, particularly the body or a diseased part.
OIS'A-NITE, n.
Pyramidical ore of titanium. Ure.
OKE, n.
An Egyptian and Turkish weight, equal to about two pounds and three quarters, English avoirdupois weight. Eton.
O'KER, n. [See OCHER.]
OLD, a. [Sax. eald; G. alt; D. οud; Dan. ælde, old age.]
- Advanced far in years or life; having lived beyond the middle period, or rather toward the end of life, or toward the end of the ordinary term of living; applied to animals, or plants; as, an old man; an old age; an old camel or horse; an old tree. This adjective is placed after the noun that designates the time lived. Abraham was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Gen. xii.
- Having been long made or used; decayed by time; as, an old garment; an old house.
- Being of long continuance; begun long ago; as, an old a acquaintance.
- Having been long made; not new or fresh; as, old wine.
- Being of a former year's growth; not of the last crop; as, old wheat; old hay.
- Ancient; that existed in former ages; as, the old inhabitants of Britain; the old Romans.
- Of any duration whatever; as, a year old; seven years old. How old art thou?
- Subsisting before something else. He built a new house on the site of the old one. The old law is repealed by the new.
- Long practiced. He is grown old in vice. He is an old offender.
- That has been long cultivated; as, old land; an old farm; opposed to new land, land lately cleared and cultivated. America.
- More than enough; great. If a man were porter of hellgate, he should have old turning of the key. Shak.
- In vulgar language, crafty; cunning. Of old, long ago; from ancient times; as, in days of old. Dryden. We apply old chiefly to things subject to decay. We never say, the old sun, or an old mountain.
OLD-EN, a.
Old; ancient. Shak.