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.