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wool fat

noun



wool fat

noun

  1. another name for lanolin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of wool fat1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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