Definition of Cod oil

1. Noun. An inferior cod-liver oil that is used in leather manufacturing.

Generic synonyms: Cod Liver Oil, Cod-liver Oil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cod Oil

cocultures
coculturing
cocurator
cocurators
cocurricular
cocus wood
cocuswood
cocycle
cocycles
cod's wallop
cod-banger
cod-bangers
cod-liver oil
cod liver oil
cod oil (current term)
coda
codabilities
codability
codable
codalike
codas
codded
codder
codders
codding
coddle
coddled
coddled egg
coddler

Literary usage of Cod oil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
""Norwegian cod oil" and "Newfoundland cod oil" are special brands of cod oil. In consequence of the replacement of steamers for sailing craft, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"... but is (or should be considered) unfit for consumption, and is mostly used up in leather industries, under the name ' brown cod oil ' or ' cod oil. ..."

3. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1868)
"There is not anything so disgusting to a sensitive stomach as an inferior grade of cod oil. I observe that the number of manufactories have greatly ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1904)
"It has also stimulated into activity all the makers on our own coast, who ordinarily confined their energies to the making of cod oil, and whose plant is, ..."

5. Hand Book of the United States Tariff: Containing the Tariff Act of 1913 by Vandegrift, F.B., & Co, United States (1913)
"cod oil, refined: TD 22441, extended to cover refined cod oil, manufactured from imported crude cod oil, and manufactures of cod oil, manufactured from ..."

6. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1840)
"On Cod-Oil. By M. DONOVAN, ESQ. AN oil procured from the liver of the cod-fish, has obtained a good deal of celebrity during the last four or five years in ..."

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