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- noun Plural form of
oil . - verb Third person singular simple present of to
oil .
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Examples
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These oils are distinguished by the name of _drying oils_.
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Family; the Portrait in oils is now (1902) in possession of
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The oils from the grease make an excellent water repellant preventing the dissolved salt in the oil from washing away quickly.
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Some of his last portraits in oils went for 900 each.
Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010
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Weatherbee was a clerk who had known naught but clerking all his life; Cuthfert was a master of arts, a dabbler in oils, and had written not a little.
In a Far Country 2010
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The oils from the grease make an excellent water repellant preventing the dissolved salt in the oil from washing away quickly.
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I work with it sometimes as an artist dabbles in oils and tempura.
A review for INK wendigomountain 2009
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Stothard, Thomas (1755 – 1834): a Londoner, Stothard was a prolific engraver of designs for magazines and books as well as a painter in oils of history subjects.
Index of People 2009
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Weatherbee was a clerk who had known naught but clerking all his life; Cuthfert was a master of arts, a dabbler in oils, and had written not a little.
In a Far Country 2010
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Through Koch Industry subsidiaries — Koch Supply & Trading and Flint Hills Resources — Koch imports crude oil and unfinished oils from a variety of foreign sources, including from Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.
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