wool fat

noun

1. lanolin.

wool fat

noun

1. See lanolin
   another name for lanolin

Word History and Origins

Origin of wool fat¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Degras, wool fat and vaseline are greases used, and the drying and stretching finished off at 120 F.

From Project Gutenberg

Dioscorides was also learned in the preparation of wool fat, which he calls sypum, known to modern pharmacists as lanoline.

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This wool fat or lanoline is used in making soap and ointments.

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Yolk consists very largely of two complex substances which have been termed wool perspiration and wool fat.

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The wool fat consists largely of a peculiar fat-like body known as cholesterine.

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