A thin volatile essential oil, C10H16, obtained by steam distillation or other means from the wood or exudate of certain pine trees and used as a paint thinner, solvent, and medicinally as a liniment.
The sticky mixture of resin and volatile oil from which turpentine is distilled.
A brownish-yellow resinous liquid obtained from the terebinth.
The sticky mixture of resin and volatile oil from which turpentine is distilled.
A brownish-yellow resinous liquid obtained from the terebinth.
by blacksaibot October 24, 2005
Adj. 1) The state of being superior to items of a similar nature.
Noun. 1) An item of particularly superior quality which enable it to dominate over other items of a similar but inferior nature.
Noun. 1) An item of particularly superior quality which enable it to dominate over other items of a similar but inferior nature.
Adj. 1) It was turpentine when I busted that 180 kickflip the other day.
Noun. 1) The taco is the straight turpentine my home skizzle.
Noun. 1) The taco is the straight turpentine my home skizzle.
by dfn_doe & Samurai Lincoln April 11, 2004
The evangelical preacher was an inveterate thief and a serial child molester. Still. the application of a little moral turpentine assured his place in Heaven. He was always careful to pray extra hard after what he'd call an incident.
by Pbaddy August 22, 2009
Term used by people of the Southern persuasion to identify something moving at a pace that borders on the supernatural. First seen in the 1920's when a group of men rubbed a cat's cinnamon ring with a dried out corncob until it was raw, and then wiped it with a rag soaked in turpentine. Can be used interchangeably with raped ape
by bob44 February 9, 2005
by caitmar December 25, 2009