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oiled, ppl. a.|ɔɪld|
[f. oil v. + -ed1.]
1. a. Smeared, moistened, or lubricated with oil. † In early use, of a person, Anointed. Also fig. Cf. to oil the wheels (oil v. 1 b).
1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. Pref., This chaplayne of the deuyll was a general prouyder for the oyled fathers there. 1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iii. Schisme 345 Th' Oyled Priests that in Gods presence stand. 1624Massinger Parl. Love v. i. Wks. (Rtldg.) 142/1, I have no oiled tongue; and I hope my bluntness will not offend. 1630Fanshawe Ode, Free from the bait of oiled hands, And painted looks. 1894Ld. Rosebery Sp. 18 Mar., If the Employers' Liability Bill had been presented to the House of Lords by a Conservative Government it would have been passed on oiled castors. 1932D. L. Sayers Have his Carcase xx. 263 It was..surprising to find the identification..going like oiled clockwork. 1933Brit. Birds XXVII. 45 Very little has been heard of ‘oiled’ birds during the two years. 1971‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird. i. 2 Lying oiled in the sun. 1972Daily Tel. 9 Mar. 9/2 Oiled birds, mostly razorbills and guillemots, are coming ashore in north Cornwall. 1973J. Burrows Like an Evening Gone i. 8 Greta was capable... Her unlikely scheme proceeded as on oiled wheels. 1976M. Millar Ask for me Tomorrow (1977) xvii. 135 It was the only house on Camino de la Cima, an oiled dirt road.
b. Soaked, ground, preserved, etc. in oil.
1535Coverdale Lev. viii. 26 An vnleuended cake, and a cake of oyled bred, and a wafer. 1658Phillips s.v. Distemper, Painting in Distemper, or size,..hath been ancientlier in use than that which is in oiled colours. 1883Fisheries Japan 22 (Fish. Exh. Publ.) Oiled sardines, preserved oysters and tunny-fish, are exhibited in our Court.
c. Of a fabric, etc.: Impregnated with oil, esp. so as to be waterproof, as oiled cloth = oilcloth, oiled silk, etc. † oiled boots: cf. boot n.3 3.
1624Massinger Parl. Love v. i. Wks. (Rtldg.) 141/2 Perillus' brazen bull, the English rack, The German pincers, or the Scotch oiled boots. 1672Dryden Assignation Prol., Your own oiled coats keep out all common rain. 1718Motteux Quix. (1733) II. 209 Our Windows in the Winter were cover'd with Oil'd-cloth, and in the Summer shaded with Lattice. 1795Ware Rem. Ophthalmy (ed. 3) p. vii, On the application of an oiled silk cap over the head. 1808M. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) 316 He has a suite of apartments in the Tartar taste with oil'd paper instead of Glass windows. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 152 An inflammable air-balloon 33 feet in diameter, made of oiled silk. 1853C. Morfit Tanning & Currying 433 Oiled leather is commonly known as chamois, or wash-leather. 1957Textile Terms & Definitions (Textile Inst.) (ed. 3) 70 Oiled wool, unscoured or undyed knitting wool or wool dyed before spinning and containing added oil not subsequently removed. 1962L. Deighton Ipcress File i. 15 His oiled teak desk. 1974D. Ramsay No Cause to Kill i. 28 The carpeting was a basket weave..effective against oiled walnut, the only wood present. 1977J. R. L. Anderson Death in City viii. 119 A heavyweight oiled-wool pullover.
2. Converted or melted into oil.
1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 297 Beat it very fine in a mortar, with a little oiled butter. 1840Hood Up the Rhine 111 A sauce made of oiled butter and hard-boiled eggs.
3. slang. Drunk; if unmodified (by well, etc.) only mildly drunk, tipsy.
1737Pennsylvania Gaz. 6–13 Jan. 2 He's Oil'd. 1899A. M. Binstead Gal's Gossip 169 He was certainly well ‘oiled’. 1916E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box 141 He was, as the slang phrase has it, ‘oiled’; which is a condition of alcoholic comfort well on this side of inebriety. 1926E. Wallace More Educated Evans ix. 218 He'll come out in a minute, oiled to the world. 1948Wodehouse Spring Fever xvi. 162 Augustus Robb, if not actually plastered, was beyond a question oiled. 1976J. Wainwright Who goes Next? 76 When they're nicely oiled, one of 'em sometimes trots around here, and buys something.
4. Executed in oil-colours.
1903Ld. R. Gower Rec. & Reminisc. 246 To make an oiled copy of the framed ‘Three Maries’, by Carracci.
5. Comb., as oiled-down, smoothed or plastered down with (hair) oil; oiled-up, fouled or choked with oil.
1907M. A. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt & Mr. Anstruther xiii. 49 Her long respectable face and oiled-down hair. 1956H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xxviii. 264 A yellow-fleshed, oiled-down, slicked-up head.
1925Morris Owner's Manual 81 Sooty or oiled-up plugs will cause erratic running, loss of power and..increased petrol consumption. |