Careful Words

oily (n.)

oily (adj.)

I want that glib and oily art,

To speak and purpose not.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Lear. Act i. Sc. 1.

A little round, fat, oily man of God.

James Thomson (1700-1748): The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 69.