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Definition of Porpoise oil
1. Noun. A yellow fatty oil obtained from porpoises and used as a fine lubricant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Porpoise Oil
Literary usage of Porpoise oil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The micrometer screw should be oiled with porpoise oil, which will last for months.
For the other parts a light paraffine oil may be used. ..."
2. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1886)
"porpoise oil is prepared in much the same manner as whale oil. In some instances,
oil of a superior quality drains from the blubber at the ordinary ..."
3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1898)
"porpoise oil is prepared in much the same manner as whale oil. ... porpoise oil
presents a general resemblance to whale oil, but is usually less offensive. ..."
4. The Condensed Chemical Dictionary: A Reference Volume for All Requiring by Chemical Catalog Company, Inc (1920)
"See Kaolin. Porpoise-blubber Oil. See porpoise oil, Body. porpoise oil, Body* (Dolphin
oil, Porpoise-blubber oil). Color and properties: Pale yellow liquid. ..."
5. Commercial Organic Analysis by Alfred Henry Allen, Wm. A. Davis (1910)
"Commercial porpoise oil is derived not only from the black porpoise, ...
porpoise oil is remarkable for the large proportion of valerin which it contains. ..."
6. Commercial Oils, Vegetable and Animal: With Special Reference to Oriental Oils by Irving Fink Laucks (1919)
"porpoise oil Body oil is intermediate between blubber oils and liquid waxes such
as sperm oil. It contains up to 4 per cent unsaponifiable matter. ..."
7. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"Italian—Olio di porco marino. For table of constants see p. 682. porpoise oil is
obtained by boiling the whole tissue of the brown porpoise, ..."
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