单词 | animal oil |
释义 | > as lemmasanimal oil animal oil n. †(a) a supposed fluid substance essential for life; cf. oil n.1 2 (obsolete rare); (b) any oil obtained from an animal's body. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > animal oil animal oil1731 1650 T. Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica 20 The Air is Corpus vitae spiritus nostri sensitivi, our Animal Oyl, the Fuell of the Vital, Sensual fire, without which which we cannot subsist a Minute. 1696 J. Floyer Preternatural State Animal Humours iv. 44 The Mineral Sulphurs which exagitate the Animal Oyls, and so promote Fermentation, as Chalybeates, Antimonial, and common Sulphur. 1731 P. Shaw Three Ess. Artific. Philos. 46 The best Ways of curing Animal Substances; but particularly Flesh, Fish, and animal Oils or Fats, for Exportation, and long Voyages. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. 188 Animal oil is produced in great abundance by the Whale and the Porpoise. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xix. 335 Vitamin E..is universally present in both vegetable and animal oils. 2002 MX News 7 Mar. 14/6 Biodiesel—fuel produced from vegetable and animal oils or recycled grease—is poised to grow into a multi-billion dollar industry. < as lemmas |
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