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roily, a. Chiefly U.S. and dial.|ˈrɔɪlɪ|
[f. roil n.2 or v.3]
Muddy, turbid. roily oil, petroleum containing much emulsified water. Hence ˈroiliness.
1823Cooper Pioneers xx, For fear you [the sap] should get roily. 1846Worcester, Roily, a., turbid;..rily. 1866J. E. Brogden Prov. Linc. 1880Scribner's Mag. Aug. 484/1 If the water is very roily or brackish. 1895Outing XXVI. 63/1 He abruptly departed, leaving behind him a trail of roily water. 1912Mem. Geol. Surv. India XL. 121 [The well] being shut down at first on account of the ‘roiliness’ or emulsification of the oil. Ibid., Two wells; one of these was a ‘dry hole’, but the other flowed during the first 24 hours 18,000 gallons of an emulsion of oil and water known in America as roily oil. 1915Redwood & Eastlake Petroleum Technol. Pocket-bk. iv. 214 On recommencing pumping the well gave nothing but ‘roily oil’ for more than a month. 1920E. H. C. Craig Oil-Finding (ed. 2) iii. 71 In a porous rock...oil and water may be inextricably intermingled... Such a rock struck in a well will probably yield ‘roily oil’, an emulsion very difficult to separate into its constituents, oil and water.
For first def. read: Muddy, turbid; turbulent; also fig. (Further examples.)
1928V. L. Parrington in N. Foerster Reinterpretation Amer. Lit. vii. 156 The movement of naturalism..was cut across..by a sporadic outburst of romanticism that..yielded a roily flood of historical fiction. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 21 Apr. s8/4 Normally it is time for heavy, layered clothing when streams are high and roily and bait fishing comes into its own. 1978N.Y. Times 9 Jan. d6/1 The company..has weathered a procession of roily events—suits, scandals, fires, financial headaches, floods, [etc.]. 1985R. Carver Fires 86 The Mississippi—High roily under a broiling sun. |