bone oil

bone oil
noun
1. the liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture
• Hypernyms: ↑animal oil
• Part Holonyms: ↑bone fat
2. dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol
• Syn: ↑Dippel's oil
• Hypernyms: ↑animal oil

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noun
1. : a dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bones (as in making bone black) that contains hydrocarbons and many nitrogen compounds (as pyrrole and pyridine bases) and is used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol — called also animal oil, Dippel's oil
2. : the liquid portion of bone fat used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture

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a fetid, tarry liquid obtained in the dry distillation of bone.

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bone oil,
a very dark, thick oil obtained by the dry distillation of bones.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • Bone oil — Oil Oil (oil), n. [OE. oile, OF. oile, F. huile, fr. L. oleum; akin to Gr. ?. Cf. {Olive}.] Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, more viscous than and not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • bone oil — a fetid, tarry liquid obtained in the dry distillation of bone. * * * …   Universalium

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