WordNet
stand oil
n. a thick oil comprised of linseed, tung, or soya oils which have been heated to over 300 C
Usage examples of "stand oil".
As soon as you enter this idol-shrine, you perceive from pillar to pillar on which it is supported many little holes in which stand oil lamps, which burn, so they tell me, every night, and they will be in number two thousand five hundred or three thousand lights.