
oil | oil: n. 1 lubricant, grease, lubricator, unguent: A little oil will stop that squeak. 2 fuel: Miraculously, the lamp burned for eight days with only one day''s supply of oil. --v. 3 lubricate, grease: Oil the bearings or they will burn out.
oily | oily: adj. 1 greasy, oleaginous, fat, fatty, adipose, pinguid, sebaceous, soapy, saponaceous, buttery, butyraceous, lardaceous; slippery, slimy, slithery, smooth, unctuous: The cars slid about as the tyres failed to grip the oily surface. 2 glib, smooth, unctuous, servile, obsequious, sycophantic, ingratiating, flattering, hypocritical; suave, urbane, sophisticated, Colloq smarmy: Sarah found Curtis''s approach sickeningly oily.
ointment | ointment: n. unguent, balm, salve, emollient, embrocation, demulcent, pomade, pomatum, petrolatum; lotion, cream: A little ointment will keep the sore moist till it heals.
