oil (n.)
- absinthe
- adulation
- aid
- alcohol
- balm
- balsam
- beeswax
- benzine
- blandishment
- blarney
- blubber
- briquette
- bunker
- bunkum
- butane
- butter
- butterfat
- cajolery
- camphor
- canvas
- carbon
- cater
- cerate
- charcoal
- coal
- coke
- collyrium
- combustible
- compliment
- copaiba
- creosote
- dab
- daub
- demulcent
- dope
- dose
- drag
- dress
- dripping
- drippings
- drug
- dub
- ease
- electricity
- embrocation
- emollient
- ethane
- ethanol
- even
- eyewash
- fat
- feed
- fireball
- firing
- flattery
- forage
- fuel
- fulminate
- gas
- gasoline
- ghee
- gouache
- grade
- grease
- harrow
- heptane
- hexane
- honey
- illuminant
- incense
- jolly
- kerosene
- lanolin
- lard
- lay
- level
- liniment
- lipid
- lipoma
- lotion
- luminant
- margarine
- methane
- methanol
- mow
- naphthalene
- octane
- ointment
- oleo
- oleomargarine
- oleoresin
- painting
- palaver
- paraffin
- peat
- petrol
- petrolatum
- petroleum
- plane
- plaster
- pomade
- praise
- propane
- propellant
- provender
- provision
- salve
- sell
- shave
- shortening
- slick
- smear
- smooth
- soap
- speed
- spikenard
- stroke
- suet
- sycophancy
- tallow
- tempera
- turf
- turpentine
- unblock
- unction
- unguent
- victual
- wash
- water
- wax
- wheedling
oil (v.)
- aid
- anoint
- balm
- beeswax
- blarney
- blubber
- bunker
- butter
- canvas
- cater
- cerate
- charcoal
- coal
- coke
- compliment
- creosote
- dab
- daub
- detonate
- dope
- dose
- drag
- dress
- drug
- dub
- ease
- embrocate
- equalize
- even
- expedite
- explain
- explode
- facilitate
- fat
- feed
- flatten
- forage
- fuel
- fulminate
- gas
- grade
- grease
- harrow
- hasten
- honey
- incense
- jolly
- lard
- lay
- level
- loose
- lubricate
- medicate
- mow
- palaver
- peat
- plane
- plaster
- pomade
- praise
- provision
- purvey
- quicken
- refuel
- salve
- sell
- shave
- simplify
- slick
- smear
- smooth
- soap
- soft-soap
- speed
- stoke
- stroke
- turf
- unbar
- unblock
- unclog
- unction
- victual
- wash
- water
- wax
oil (adj.)
A business with an income at its heels
Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.
Everything is soothed by oil, and this is the reason why divers send out small quantities of it from their mouths, because it smooths every part which is rough.
In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her,
Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!
An handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse.
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail.
Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
