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oiled

  [oild]
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–adjective
1. lubricated or smeared with or as if with oil.
2. Slang. drunk; intoxicated.
Origin:
1525–35; oil + -ed 2 , -ed 3

oil

  [oil]
–noun
1. any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
2. a substance of this or similar consistency.
3. refined or crude petroleum.
4. Painting.
a. oil color.
b. oil painting.
5. Informal. unctuous hypocrisy; flattery.
6. an oilskin garment.
7. Australian and New Zealand Slang. facts or news; information: good oil.
–verb (used with object)
8. to smear, lubricate, or supply with oil.
9. to bribe.
10. to make unctuous or smooth: to oil his words.
11. to convert into oil by melting, as butter.
–adjective
12. pertaining to or resembling oil.
13. using oil, esp. as a fuel: an oil furnace.
14. concerned with the production or use of oil: an offshore oil rig.
15. made with oil.
16. obtained from oil.
—Idioms
17. pour oil on troubled waters, to attempt to calm a difficult or tense situation, as an argument.
18. strike oil,
a. to discover oil, esp. to bring in a well.
b. to have good luck, esp. financially; make an important and valuable discovery: They struck oil only after years of market research.
Origin:
1125–75; ME olie, oile < OF < L oleum, olīvum (olive) oil < *oleivum (cf. Deus ) < dial. Gk *élaiwon (Attic élaion), deriv. of *elaíwā olive

Related forms:
oilless, adjective
oil⋅less⋅ness, noun
oillike, adjective
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oil   (oil)   
n.  
  1. Any of numerous mineral, vegetable, and synthetic substances and animal and vegetable fats that are generally slippery, combustible, viscous, liquid or liquefiable at room temperatures, soluble in various organic solvents such as ether but not in water, and used in a great variety of products, especially lubricants and fuels.
    1. Petroleum.
    2. A petroleum derivative, such as a machine oil or lubricant.
  3. A substance with an oily consistency.
  4. Oil paint.
  5. A painting done in oil paint.
  6. Insincere flattery.
tr.v.   oiled, oil·ing, oils
To lubricate, supply, cover, or polish with oil.

[Middle English, from Old French oile, from Latin oleum, olive oil, from Greek *elaiwon, elaion, from *elaiwā, elaiā, olive.]
oiled   (oild)   
adj.  
  1. Treated or covered with oil: "Seventy percent of eagle nests in the oiled area failed to produce live chicks" (Timothy Egan).
  2. Slang Intoxicated; drunk.
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Oiled

Oiled\, a. Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil.

Oiled silk, silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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