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.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Vaseline
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vaseline
Noun
- Petroleum jelly (now sold by Unilever) under the trade name Vaseline.
- "Hearts of putty, hearts of vaseline" (Aldous Huxley, Brief Candles, 1930)
- 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)
- A greenish-yellow coloured glass, or the colouring used in the manufacture of this glass.
Verb
- To lubricate with vaseline.
- "Even at this late date, vaselining will preserve the best of these leathers."
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