cosmoline

English

Etymology

Probably from cosmetic + Latin oleum (“oil”).

Noun

cosmoline (plural cosmolines)

(chemistry) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffins.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cosmoline in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

semi-colon, semicolon

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