animal oil

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In this portion of Mr Crimple's leg, sir, there is a certain amount of animal oil.

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles

We also got from these people a considerable quantity of very good animal oil, which they had reserved in bladders.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

The other kind of animal oil is extracted by distillation from the flesh, the tendons, the bones, and horns, &c. of animals.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph

The former is an animal oil obtained from the head cavities of the sperm-whale; the latter is a vegetable oil obtained from rape-seed.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

All vegetable and animal oil which has been "bleached" by exposure to the light is more liable to decomposition on exposure to air than that which is unbleached.

From Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology by Lewis, William T.