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Noun: bone oil  bown oyl
  1. The liquid portion of bone fat; used as a lubricant and in leather manufacture
    "Bone oil was applied to soften the leather"
     
  2. Dark-coloured ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone; used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol
    "Bone oil was historically used as an insecticide in agriculture";
    - Dippel's oil

Type of: animal oil

Part of: bone fat

Encyclopedia: Bone oil