Unctuous combustible substances that are liquid or easily liquefiable on warming, and are soluble in ether but insoluble in water. Such substances, depending on their origin, are classified as animal, mineral, or vegetable oils. Depending on their behavior on heating, they are volatile or fixed. (Dorland, 28th ed)
    

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Pure trotter oil : for improving the appearance and promoting the growth and elasticity of the hair.

Pine's Devonshire oils, for cattle : worms in sheep, ewes' and cows' udders, black udder, scour in lambs, inflammations, gripes, chills, galls, sprains, swellings, broken knees, &c. : prepared & sold wholesale & retail by the proprietor / R.J. Joint.

Smith's Lambing Oils / prepared by W. Smith.

Oils and fats : an address / by Sir Herbert Davis.

Rancidity in edible fats / by C.H. Lea.

Aids in the commercial analysis of oils, fats, and their commercial products : A laboratory handbook / by George Fenwick Pickering.

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Smith's Lambing Oils / prepared by W. Smith.

Pine's Devonshire oils, for cattle : worms in sheep, ewes' and cows' udders, black udder, scour in lambs, inflammations, gripes, chills, galls, sprains, swellings, broken knees, &c. : prepared & sold wholesale & retail by the proprietor / R.J. Joint.

Oils and fats : an address / by Sir Herbert Davis.

Rancidity in edible fats / by C.H. Lea.

Aids in the commercial analysis of oils, fats, and their commercial products : A laboratory handbook / by George Fenwick Pickering.