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Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class III. Words Relating to Matter
Section II. Inorganic Matter
3. Imperfect Fluids

356. Oil.

   NOUN:OIL, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping, exunge [obs.], blubber; glycerin or glycerine, stearin, elain or elaine, olein, oleagine; coconut butter; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin or paraffine, benzine, gasoline or gasolene, petrol, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral -, rock -, crystal- oil; vegetable -, colza -, olive -, salad -, linseed -, cottonseed -, coconut -, palm -, nut- oil; animal -, neat’s-foot -, train- oil; ointment, pomade, pomatum, unguent, liniment; amole, Barbados tar; fusel -, grain -, rape -, seneca- oil; hydrate of amyl, ghee or ghi [India], kerosene, naphtha.