Synonyms:
grease, lubricating_oil
Meaning: a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery)
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
grease
Meaning: lubricate with grease; "grease the wheels"
Usage examples
It burned him to a few grease spots.
Heat twenty-six pounds of strained grease.
Or I don't know where the heavy grease is at?
Chop all the cabbage from the inside and fry in hot grease with 1 sliced onion.
Do not let the heat get out of the dough while working. Grease the loaves well on top and set your bread where it will be warm and rise.
Some persons carry a piece of grease with them, when shooting in wet weather, and with it they smear the top of the nipple after each loading, before putting on the fresh cap.
Heat twenty pounds of strained grease, then mix it with the dissolved potash, and boil them together till the whole becomes a thick jelly, which is ascertained by taking a little of it out to get cold.
To protect Caps from the Rain.--Before stalking, or watching at night in rainy weather, wax or grease the edge of the cap as it rests on the nipple: it will thus become proof against water and damp air.
In the meantime, I put myself on a short allowance of bear's grease, wholly abandoned scented soap and lavender water, and sold off three waistcoats at a prodigious sacrifice, as being too luxurious for my stern career.
He could not get over the initial failures in his scheme for advancing his suit, and hence he did not know that he was eating mouthfuls of bread and nothing else, and continually snuffing the two candles next him till he had reduced them to mere glimmers drowned in their own grease.