A test for determining the temperature at which petroleum oils give off vapor which is liable to explode.

An empyreumatic oil obtained by subjecting a brick soaked in oil to distillation at a high temperature; formerly used in medicine and by lapidaries.

A pale yellowish green colour.

(obsolete) A nostrum made of calcined talc, famous in the 17th century as a cosmetic.

Any of the genus Meloe of blister beetles, which release oily droplets of toxic hemolymph from their joints when disturbed.

(archaic) enanthic ether

An oil obtained by heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives.

To find petroleum when boring for it. / (figuratively, informal) To have sudden good fortune, especially financially.

(agriculture) Synonym of oilseed radish

plural of oil radish