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 mediæval 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.
• 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.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• 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.