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vaseline
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaseline \Vas"e*line\, n. [Said by the manufacturer to be derived from G. wasser water + Gr. 'e`laion olive oil.] A yellowish translucent substance, almost odorless and tasteless, obtained as a residue in the purification of crude petroleum, and consisting essentially of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series. It is used as an unguent, and for various purposes in the arts. See the Note under Petrolatum. [Written also vaselin.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, trademark for an ointment made from petroleum and marketed by Chesebrough Manufacturing Co., coined from German Wasser "water" + Greek elaion "oil" + scientific-sounded ending -ine. Robert A. Chesebrough was of the opinion that petroleum was a product of the underground decomposition of water.\n\nThe name is of mixed origin, being derived from Wasser, water, and elaion [Greek in the original], oil (water-oil), and indicates the belief of the discoverer that petroleum, the mother of Vaseline, is produced by the agency of heat and pressure from the carbon of certain rocks, and the hydrogen of water.
["The Monthly Review of Dental Surgery," February 1877]
\nWiktionary
n. 1 petroleum jelly. 2 Any particular kind of petroleum jelly or of any similar lubricant. 3 A greenish-yellow coloured glass, or the colouring used in the manufacture of this glass. vb. To lubricate with vaseline.
Wikipedia
Vaseline may refer to:
- Vaseline is a trademarked brand of petroleum jelly
- Vaseline glass, also known as uranium glass
- The Vaselines, a Scottish rock band
- Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, a 1992 compilation album by American band Talking Heads
- " Vasoline," a 1994 song by Stone Temple Pilots
- "Vaseline," a song on English alternative rock band Elastica's debut album Elastica
Vaseline is a brand of petroleum jelly based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, soaps, lotions, cleansers, deodorants, and personal lubricants.
In many languages the word "Vaseline" is used as generic for petroleum jelly; in Portuguese and some Spanish speaking countries the Unilever products are called Vasenol.
Usage examples of "vaseline".
A Second Look by Marianna Heusler He watched her walking towards him, cocky and self-assured, her skirt hitched up way above her hefty thighs, her scarlet sweater outlining her ample curves as well as her flabby rolls, her makeup caked on her face, her lips slippery with colored Vaseline, her hair sprayed and gelled in some elaborate do.
And all came with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and harps and swords and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed symbols of their efficacies, inkhorns, arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees, bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells, wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies, buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows, beehives, soupladles, stars, snakes, anvils, boxes of vaseline, bells, crutches, forceps, stags' horns, watertight boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns.
There's also a giant jar of Vaseline, three big tins of Johnson's Baby Powder and two dummies and flannels as well as three bars of Pears soap and a pink rattle.
It was simply a blending of certain of those chemical substances which fluoresce, or glow, when exposed to ultra-violet light - a property not especially remarkable, being shared by a substance as common as vaseline.
Mama got a little alcohol on some cotton up in there and then some Vaseline.
The moving parts have ball bearings and friction rollers, lubrication being secured automatically, when required, by a supply of vaseline that melts if any part becomes hot.
However, she always sobered up when I goosed her with a dollop of vaseline.
Its eyes were wide, black, and staring, and a kind of leathery, slimy hide covered its flesh, like an inner tube lathered with Vaseline, though there were tiny holes corroded in it by the sunlight I had brought with me.
Goldy turned south on Seventh Avenue, past the Theresa Hotel entrance, past Sugar Ray's Tavern, past the barber shop where the sharp cats got their nappy kinks straightened with a mixture of Vaseline and potash lye.
Big Boy, Big Boy, oh give me all you've got, begged the empty milk bottle that I kept hidden in our storage bin in the basement, to drive wild after school with my vaselined upright.