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stand oil
noun
- a thick oil made by heating linseed oil to temperatures of 600°F and higher, used chiefly as a medium in paints.
stand oil
noun
- a thick drying oil made by heating linseed, tung, or soya to over 300°C: used in oil enamel paints
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of stand oil1
First recorded in 1920–25
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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.
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