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Word Meanings - OILED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil. Oiled silk, silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.

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  • TREATMENT
    1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • OILLET
    A small opening or loophole, sometimes circular, used in mediƦval fortifications. A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • OILNUT
    The buffalo nut. See Buffalo nut, under Buffalo. Note: The name is also applied to various nuts and seeds yielding oil, as the butternut, cocoanut, oil-palm nut.
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • 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
  • DRESSINESS
    The state of being dressy.
  • OILED
    Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil. Oiled silk, silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.
  • OILSTONE
    A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.
  • COVERT BARON
    Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
  • SOAKING
    Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain. -- Soak"ing*ly, adv.
  • TREATABLY
    In a treatable manner.
  • WATERPROOF
    Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
  • BOILED
    Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.
  • BOILARY
    See BOILERY
  • TREAT
    To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
  • TREATER
    One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
  • COVERTNESS
    Secrecy; privacy.
  • DRESS CIRCLE
    A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
  • UNDRESS
    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • DISEMBROIL
    To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison.
  • RECOVER
    To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
  • CHOKING COIL
    A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.
  • BEMOIL
    To soil or encumber with mire and dirt. Shak.
  • OVERBOIL
    To boil over or unduly. Nor is discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil In the hot throng. Byron.
  • SPARPOIL
    To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
  • OFFENDRESS
    A woman who offends. Shak.
  • QUATREFEUILLE; QUATREFOIL
    See QUARTERFOIL
  • SOILY
    Dirty; soiled. Fuller.
  • UNCOIL
    To unwind or open, as a coil of rope. Derham.
  • SOILURE
    Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.
  • MULTIFOIL
    An ornamental foliation consisting of more than five divisions or foils. See Foil.
  • ARGOILE
    Potter's clay. Chaucer.

 

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