drying oil
any of a group of oily, organic liquids occurring naturally, as linseed, soybean, or dehydrated castor oil, or synthesized, that when applied as a thin coating absorb atmospheric oxygen, forming a tough, elastic layer.
Origin of drying oil
1Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use drying oil in a sentence
Like all bituminous earths, it needs the strongest drying oil.
Field's Chromatography | George FieldPrussian blue (preferably Turnbulls), ground with pale, quick-drying oil.
The surface is prepared by a coating of white lead in drying oil.
An oil is expressed from its kernel which is known as nut-oil, and is much used by painters as a drying oil.
drying oil was well known to the ancients, that is before the Christian era.
British Dictionary definitions for drying oil
one of a number of animal or vegetable oils, such as linseed oil, that harden by oxidation on exposure to air: used as a base for some paints and varnishes
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse