Definition of oily

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Oily (superl.) Covered with oil; greasy; hence, resembling oil; as, an oily appearance..

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Fucusol :: Fucusol (n.) An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds..
Oily :: Oily (superl.) Smoothly subservient; supple; compliant; plausible; insinuating.
Valerin :: Valerin (n.) A salt of valeric acid with glycerin, occurring in butter, dolphin oil., and forming an forming an oily liquid with a slightly unpleasant odor..
Conylene :: Conylene (n.) An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine..
Erythroleic :: Erythroleic (a.) Having a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.
Fat :: Fat (superl.) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
Cetene :: Cetene (n.) An oily hydrocarbon, C16H32, of the ethylene series, obtained from spermaceti..
Turmerol :: Turmerol (n.) Turmeric oil, a brownish yellow, oily substance extracted from turmeric by ligroin..
Pinacolin :: Pinacolin (n.) A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type..
Oleone :: Oleone (n.) An oily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid..
Indoxyl :: Indoxyl (n.) A nitrogenous substance, C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol, obtained as an oily liquid..
Oleosity :: Oleosity (n.) The state or quality of being oily or fat; fatness.
Rily :: Rily (a.) Roily.
Hircic :: Hircic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin..
Emulsify :: Emulsify (v. t.) To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution; as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food..
Rubidine :: Rubidine (n.) A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group od metameric compounds of which rubidine is the type..
Unctuous :: Unctuous (a.) Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy.
Iodal :: Iodal (n.) An oily liquid, Cl3.CHO, analogous to chloral and bromal..
Cardol :: Cardol (n.) A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut..
Oleaginous :: Oleaginous (a.) Having the nature or qualities of oil; oily; unctuous.
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