Crossword clues for linseed oil
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Linseed \Lin"seed`\ (l[i^]n"s[=e]d`), n. [OE. lin flax + seed. See Linen.] (Bot.) The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained.
Linseed cake, the solid mass or cake which remains when oil is expressed from flaxseed.
Linseed meal, linseed cake reduced to powder.
Linseed oil, oil obtained by pressure from flaxseed.
Wiktionary
n. An oil, extracted from flax seeds, used as a drying agent in paints, varnishes etc.
WordNet
n. a drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints [syn: flaxseed oil]
Wikipedia
Linseed oil, also known as flaxseed oil, is a colourless to yellowish oil obtained from the dried, ripened seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum). The oil is obtained by pressing, sometimes followed by solvent extraction. Linseed oil is a drying oil, meaning it can polymerize into a solid form. Due to its polymer-forming properties, linseed oil can be used on its own or blended with combinations of other oils, resins or solvents as an impregnator, drying oil finish or varnish in wood finishing, as a pigment binder in oil paints, as a plasticizer and hardener in putty, and in the manufacture of linoleum. Linseed oil use has declined over the past several decades with increased availability of synthetic alkyd resins—which function similarly but resist yellowing.
Linseed oil is an edible oil in demand as a nutritional supplement, as a source of α-Linolenic acid, (an omega-3 fatty acid). In parts of Europe, it is traditionally eaten with potatoes and quark. It is regarded as a delicacy due to its hearty taste, that enhances the flavour of quark, which is otherwise bland.
Usage examples of "linseed oil".
The fixed oil, with constituents rather like that of linseed oil, possesses the drying qualities common to the fixed oils together with all the medicinal properties of the seed.
Oil of Elder Leaves (Oleum Viride), Green Oil, or Oil of Swallows, is prepared by digesting 1 part of bruised fresh Elder leaves in 3 parts of linseed oil.
Boiled oil, produced by heating raw linseed oil to a temperature of 150 degrees C.
I just had to put a coffee filter in a wash basin and pour the shampoo through it, so's the shampoo all ran down the drain and there was that stuff left on the paper, then I just turned the coffee filter inside out and soaked it in a little jar with some linseed oil from the feed shed, and then I'd stir a quarter of it into the feed if it was for a mare I was looking after anyway, or let the stuff fall to the bottom and scrape up a teaspoonful and put it in an apple for the others.
They had a real lamp, now, not just a wick through a wooden button floating in linseed oil.
I don't think you're supposed to put linseed oil on leather to begin with.
I mixed more of the paint than I would need, to be sure that I would have enough, and thinned the glowing pile with enough linseed oil and turpentine to spread it smoothly on the canvas.
Much more common will be linseed oil, which is made by pressing the seeds from the flax plant that is grown throughout northern Europe to provide flax for linen cloth.
It was done in an hour, and we gave it a thin coating of linseed oil.
For good measure he had worked linseed oil into his matched bullhorns and they now shone wickedly black.