Word Meanings - OILSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.

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• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• WHETSTONE
  A piece of stone, natural or artificial, used for whetting, or sharpening, edge tools. The dullness of the fools is the whetstone of the wits. Shak. Diligence is to the understanding as the whetstone to the razor. South. Note: Some whetstones are
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• WHETTER
  1. One who, or that which, whets, sharpens, or stimulates. 2. A tippler; one who drinks whets. Steele.
• SLATE-COLOR
  A dark bluish gray color.
• LUBRICATE
  1. To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young. 2. To apply a lubricant
• SLATE
  An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist. 2. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure. 3. A prepared piece of such stone. Especially: A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc. A
• VARIETY
  1. The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light.
• LUBRICATOR
  1. One who, or that which, lubricates. " Lubricator of the fibers." Burke. 2. A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.
• LUBRICATION
  The act of lubricating; the act of making slippery.
• SLATE-GRAY
  Of a dark gray, like slate.
• MISTRANSLATE
  To translate erroneously.
• TRANSLATE
  To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
• SUBVARIETY
  A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.
• SEA SLATER
  Any isopod crustacean of the genus Ligia.
• LEGISLATE
  To make or enact a law or laws. Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of a more perfect constitution than he gave them. Bp. Watson .
• RETRANSLATE
  To translate anew; especially, to translate back into the original language.