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Creosote   /krˈiəsˌoʊt/   Listen
Creosote

verb
(past & past part. creosoted; pres. part. creosoting)
1.
Treat with creosote.
noun
1.
A colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic.
2.
A dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood.  Synonym: coal-tar creosote.



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"Creosote" Quotes from Famous Books



... weight, and after a month or two you may commence on solid foods partly, choosing such articles as the Salisbury steak (see treatment for obesity), pure cod liver oil, sweet cream, eggs, toasted whole wheat bread, etc. Ten drops of beechwood creosote morning and night, on a fifty cent respirator, is all the drug treatment necessary, or useful. An external bath for those able to walk about, and a "sponge off" for those confined to bed, must not be neglected. ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell

... the remedy is worse than the offence. Chloroform is preferable to creosote, or whatever abominable element is the principal ingredient of smoke and cold! The thermometer must be ...
— At Last • Marion Harland

... the same. It's on the east coast. And somehow there's something in the water that keeps things from decaying. Like creosote it smells. It reminded me of Trinidad. Did they get any more eggs? Some of the eggs I found were a foot-and-a-half long. The swamp goes circling round, you know, and cuts off this bit. It's mostly salt, too. Well.... What a time I had of it! I found the things quite by accident. ...
— The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... could do as well anywhere else, and I was going there—to-morrow; going somewhere, anyhow, so that when my day's work was over I could go home to a blazing fire on a wide hearth, instead of Wilbraham's smelly stove where no one ever cleaned the creosote out of the pipe,—and where the girl I had had in my head for ten years would ...
— The La Chance Mine Mystery • Susan Carleton Jones

... Fig. 1, Plate LXXIV, were nailed to the shutters, the steel beam over the niche was laid in place, the forms for the ladders, L in Fig. 2, Plate LXXIV, which occur every 25 ft., were tacked to the shutters, the shutters and forms were given a coat of creosote oil, and then all was ready ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard


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