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Fish oil   /fɪʃ ɔɪl/   Listen
Fish oil

noun
1.
A fatty oil obtained from the livers of various fish.  Synonym: fish-liver oil.






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"Fish oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... sorcerer. Too often, however, the sorcerer succeeds in getting hold of such a bone, and when he does so he believes that he has the power of life and death over the man, woman, or child who ate the flesh of the animal. To put the charm in operation he makes a paste of red ochre and fish oil, inserts in it the eye of a cod and a small piece of the flesh of a corpse, and having rolled the compound into a ball sticks it on the top of the bone. After being left for some time in the bosom of a dead body, in order that it may derive a deadly potency by contact with corruption, the ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

... in destroying soft bodied insects such as plant lice. The fish oil soaps, although variable in composition, are often valuable, especially the one known in the trade as whale oil soap. This soap dissolved in water by boiling at the rate of two pounds of soap to one gallon of water, makes a good winter spray ...
— Apple Growing • M. C. Burritt



Words linked to "Fish oil" :   tuna oil, fish-liver oil, animal oil



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