boiled oil

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. any oil, as linseed oil, heated together with driers to improve its drying properties.

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Etymology

Origin of boiled oil

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Before the spring cleaning the stoves must be taken down and cleaned out, stovepipes cleaned and rubbed with boiled oil to prevent rust, and both put away in the attic.

From The Complete Home by Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth)

Bird-lime is made either from boiled oil or from holly-bark, but the making of it is not "worth the candle," it being so easily bought from any professional bird-catcher.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Browne, Montagu

Use equal parts of boiled oil, white lead, pipe clay and black oxide of manganese, and form it into a paste.

From Practical Mechanics for Boys by Zerbe, James Slough

If the grain is raised, sandpaper lightly, or rub with steel wool and then with boiled oil.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

Before tacking on the deck canvas, give the inside and outside of the hull a liberal coat of a mixture composed of three-quarters boiled oil to one-quarter raw oil, with some patent drier.

From Harper's Round Table, August 13, 1895 by Various