animal oil - any oil obtained from animal substancesdrying oil - an oil that hardens in air due to oxidation and is often used as a paint or varnish base blubber - an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil Dippel's oil, bone oil - dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol bone oil - the liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture cod liver oil, cod-liver oil - an oil obtained from the livers of cod and similar fishes; taken orally as a source of vitamins A and D lanolin, wool fat, wool grease - a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics acylglycerol, glyceride - an ester of glycerol and fatty acids that occurs naturally as fats and fatty oils; "fresh fats contain glycerides of fatty acids and very little free acid" halibut-liver oil - a fatty oil from halibut livers that is used as a source of vitamin A lard oil - oil consisting chiefly of olein that is expressed from lard and used especially as a lubricant, cutting oil or illuminant menhaden oil - a fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather neat's-foot oil - a pale yellow oil made from the feet and legs of cattle; used as a dressing for leather oil - a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water oleo oil - obtained from beef fat; used in making margarine and soap and in lubrication porpoise oil - a yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant dolphin oil - an unsaturated fatty oil obtained from dolphins and used as a fine lubricant salmon oil - a fatty oil obtained from the wastes in canning salmon; used in making soap and dressing leather sardine oil - oil obtained from sardines and used chiefly as a lubricant and in soap seal oil - a pale yellow to red-brown fatty oil obtained from seal blubber; used in making soap and dressing leather and as a lubricant shark oil, shark-liver oil - a fatty yellow to brown oil obtained from the livers of sharks; used for dressing leather and as a source of vitamin A sperm oil - an animal oil found in the blubber of the sperm whale tallow - obtained from suet and used in making soap, candles and lubricants tallow oil - an animal oil obtained by pressing tallow; used as a lubricant train oil, whale oil - a white to brown oil obtained from whale blubber; formerly used as an illuminant wool oil - any oil used to oil wool before spinning |