Dictionary Entry

oil

Part of Speech: nounPronunciation: /ɔɪl/Used In Literature ↓

Liquid fat.

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Common Phrases

. oilcompany oilcompanies oiloil oliveoil crudeoil standard

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Poetry examples for “oil”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Mop Wringers Feather Dusters
Oil Mops Toilet Brushes
Window Rubbers Etc., Etc,

Bedaubed with iridescent dirt.
The oil upon the puddles dries
To colours like a peacock's eyes,

“Chinaski!” he snapped, “your rifle is leaking oil!”

Ring the silver bell.
All my lamps burn scented oil,
Hung on laden orange-trees,

She swallows more and doth not cease:
Therefore her wine and oil increase
And her sheaves are not numberèd;

Five Virgins replenish with oil their lamps, being wise,
Five Virgins awaiting the Bridegroom watch and pray:

And every president
Of rail, gas, coal and oil, the parks,
The receipt of custom knows, without a look,

What caused the hemolysis. Since you say
She took no castor oil, that you can learn
From Irma Leese, or any witness, still

From marts of wine and beef,
And oil and bread.

God shall o'er-brim the measures you have spent
With oil of gladness, for sackcloth and frieze
And the ever-fretting shirt of punishment