oil

Roget category 356

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.2. Inorganic matter
›› 3.2.3. Imperfect fluids

#356. Oil

noun

oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge^†, blubber — glycerin, stearin, elaine [Chem], oleagine^† — soap — soft soap, wax, cerement — paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere^† — petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil — vegetable oil, colza oil^†, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil — animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil — ointment, unguent, liniment — aceite^†, amole^†, Barbados tar^† — fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil — hydrate of amyl, ghee^† — heating oil, #2 oil, No.
2 oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet fuel, gasoline, naphtha — stearin.

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