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essential oil
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile oils , ethereal oils , aetherolea , or simply as the oil of the plant from which they were extracted, such as ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ First though, let us explore the more tangible routes an essential oil may take on its sojourn through mind-body. ▪ Four chapters on essential oil analysis follow. ▪ If you dislike the aroma, you have only wasted a tiny amount ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A volatile oil, used to make perfumes and flavourings, especially one having the characteristic odour of the plant from which it is obtained.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an oil having the odor or flavor of the plant from which it comes; used in perfume and flavorings [syn: volatile oil ]
Usage examples of essential oil.
In the Siagne Valley, it is calculated that 300 kilos of fresh plant produce 1 kilo of essential oil, elsewhere a yield of 2 kilos to about 1,000 kilos of stems and green leaves is claimed.
Further, if there is any wind, the mid-day is the time when it will be hottest and most saturated with moisture, thus easily taking up the more volatile and more soluble particles of the essential oil.
If you do not add essential oil in the empowerment, you may wish to add a drop or two of an appropriate fragrance before tying the sachet.
The essential oil of Anise is a good preventive of mould in paste.
Most of the cells, however, included hyaline, motionless little spheres, which did not seem to consist of protoplasm, but, I suppose, of some balsam or essential oil.
Caraway grown in more northerly latitudes is richer in essential oil than that grown in southern regions, and if grown in full sun a greater percentage and a richer oil is obtained.
At this point, items that will unleash healing or necromantic powers must be anointed with an ointment (purified with Azundel's purification, Obar's lesser purification, higher consecration, or a religion-specific ritual) composed of powdered gems of a type favorable to the magic, pure essential oil, and herbs harvested with a silver weapon or a weapon consecrated to the item creator's deity (if a priest) in particular and obscure conditions, such as under a full moon on Midsummer night, in the shadow of an oak inhabited by a dryad, or from the grave dirt of a vampire in the dark of the moon.
For this reason, essential oil is made from it and is used in the form of pills.
The crock had been collecting the essential oil as it dripped through a filter tube attached to the steeping vat.
I place loose pennyroyal in his bedding and put a few drops of essential oil on his brush when I groom him.
It is due to an essential oil, which gives off an inflammable vapour in heat or in dry, cloudy weather, which also congeals as resinous wax, exuding from rusty-red glands in the flowers.
During the process of drying which is carried out in a similar manner to the drying of malt, great care is required to prevent overheating, by which the essential oil would become volatilized.
But use it sparingly, its basis is the essential oil with which they anoint the Emperor of the East.
The essential oil of despair must be added to those of fear and pain.
The essential oil may, therefore, be included in the class of socalled 'ferment-oils.