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   fossil oil
         n 1: a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn:
               {petroleum}, {crude oil}, {crude}, {rock oil}, {fossil
               oil}, {oil}]

English Dictionary: fossilology by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fossilology
n
  1. the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains
    Synonym(s): paleontology, palaeontology, fossilology
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fusel oil
n
  1. a mixture of amyl alcohols and propanol and butanol formed from distillation of fermented liquors
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Facile \Fac"ile\a. [L. facilis, prop., capable of being done or
      made, hence, facile, easy, fr. facere to make, do: cf. F.
      facile. Srr {Fact}, and cf. {Faculty}.]
      1. Easy to be done or performed: not difficult; performable
            or attainable with little labor.
  
                     Order . . . will render the work facile and
                     delightful.                                       --Evelyn.
  
      2. Easy to be surmounted or removed; easily conquerable;
            readily mastered.
  
                     The facile gates of hell too slightly barred.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      3. Easy of access or converse; mild; courteous; not haughty,
            austere, or distant; affable; complaisant.
  
                     I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet. --B.
                                                                              Jonson.
  
      4. Easily persuaded to good or bad; yielding; ductile to a
            fault; pliant; flexible.
  
                     Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost
                     Paradise, deceived by me.                  --Milton.
  
                     This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so
                     facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a
                     keeper on the king's highway.            --Prof.
                                                                              Wilson.
  
      5. Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he
            wields a facile pen. -- {Fac"ile-ly}, adv. --
            {Fac"ile*ness}, n.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Alcohol \Al"co*hol\ ([acr]l"k[osl]*h[ocr]l), n. [Cf. F. alcool,
      formerly written alcohol, Sp. alcohol alcohol, antimony,
      galena, OSp. alcofol; all fr. Ar. al-kohl a powder of
      antimony or galena, to paint the eyebrows with. The name was
      afterwards applied, on account of the fineness of this
      powder, to highly rectified spirits, a signification unknown
      in Arabia. The Sp. word has both meanings. Cf. {Alquifou}.]
      1. An impalpable powder. [Obs.]
  
      2. The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
            [Obs.] --Boyle.
  
      3. Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit
            (called also {ethyl alcohol}); the spirituous or
            intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or
            more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable
            quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from
            various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine
            nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.
  
      Note: As used in the U. S. [bd]Pharmacop[oe]ia,[b8] alcohol
               contains 91 per cent by weight of ethyl alcohol and 9
               per cent of water; and diluted alcohol (proof spirit)
               contains 45.5 per cent by weight of ethyl alcohol and
               54.5 per cent of water.
  
      4. (Organic Chem.) A class of compounds analogous to vinic
            alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are
            hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical
            ethyl forms common or {ethyl alcohol} ({C2H5.OH}); methyl
            forms {methyl alcohol} ({CH3.OH}) or {wood spirit}; amyl
            forms {amyl alcohol} ({C5H11.OH}) or {fusel oil}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fusel \Fu"sel\, n., Fusel oil \Fu"sel oil\ [G. fusel bad
      liquor.] (Chem.)
      A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic
      liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an
      undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the
      higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl
      alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Alcohol \Al"co*hol\ ([acr]l"k[osl]*h[ocr]l), n. [Cf. F. alcool,
      formerly written alcohol, Sp. alcohol alcohol, antimony,
      galena, OSp. alcofol; all fr. Ar. al-kohl a powder of
      antimony or galena, to paint the eyebrows with. The name was
      afterwards applied, on account of the fineness of this
      powder, to highly rectified spirits, a signification unknown
      in Arabia. The Sp. word has both meanings. Cf. {Alquifou}.]
      1. An impalpable powder. [Obs.]
  
      2. The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
            [Obs.] --Boyle.
  
      3. Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit
            (called also {ethyl alcohol}); the spirituous or
            intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or
            more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable
            quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from
            various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine
            nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.
  
      Note: As used in the U. S. [bd]Pharmacop[oe]ia,[b8] alcohol
               contains 91 per cent by weight of ethyl alcohol and 9
               per cent of water; and diluted alcohol (proof spirit)
               contains 45.5 per cent by weight of ethyl alcohol and
               54.5 per cent of water.
  
      4. (Organic Chem.) A class of compounds analogous to vinic
            alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are
            hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical
            ethyl forms common or {ethyl alcohol} ({C2H5.OH}); methyl
            forms {methyl alcohol} ({CH3.OH}) or {wood spirit}; amyl
            forms {amyl alcohol} ({C5H11.OH}) or {fusel oil}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fusel \Fu"sel\, n., Fusel oil \Fu"sel oil\ [G. fusel bad
      liquor.] (Chem.)
      A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic
      liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an
      undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the
      higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl
      alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.
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