Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Dippel's oil \Dip"pel's oil`\ (Chem.) [From the name of the
inventor.]
See {Bone oil}, under {Bone}.
{Bone earth} (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the
calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of
calcium.
{Bone lace}, a lace made of linen thread, so called because
woven with bobbins of bone.
{Bone oil}, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the
manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing
the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their
derivatives; -- also called {Dippel's oil}.
{Bone setter}. Same as {Bonesetter}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Bone shark} (Zo["o]l.), the basking shark.
{Bone spavin}. See under {Spavin}.
{Bone turquoise}, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue
color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise.
{Bone whale} (Zo["o]l.), a right whale.
{To be upon the bones of}, to attack. [Obs.]
{To make no bones}, to make no scruple; not to hesitate.
[Low]
{To pick a bone with}, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over
a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.]
Source : WordNet®
Dippel's oil
n : dark-colored ill-smelling oil obtained by carbonizing bone;
used especially in sheep dips and in denaturing alcohol
[syn: {bone oil}]