VASELINE

Vaseline

Vaseline is a brand of petroleum jelly based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, soaps, lotions, cleansers, deodorants and personal lubricants.

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vaseline

Noun

  1. Petroleum jelly (now sold by Unilever) under the trade name Vaseline.
    "Hearts of putty, hearts of vaseline" (Aldous Huxley, Brief Candles, 1930)
  2. Any petroleum jelly or similar lubricant.
    "A Russian vaseline has been lately added to the many kinds of vaseline found in ..." (Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, 1882)
  3. A greenish-yellow coloured glass, or the colouring used in the manufacture of this glass.

Verb

  1. To lubricate with vaseline.
    "Even at this late date, vaselining will preserve the best of these leathers."


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