Meanings
plural doeglings
- A northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus), from which oil was once obtained.
An ointment base said to be a mixture of soap, carnauba wax, and doegling oil.
1904, George M. Gould, “Myronin”, in A Dictionary of New Medical Terms, Philadelphia, P.A.: P. Blakiston, page 3742 more examples
This acid is, moreover, not combined with oxide of lipyl in the Doegling train-oil, (at least it yields no glycerine on saponification,) but probably with doeglic oxide, C₂₄H₂₅O, a body similar to the ether-like haloid bases, whose existence and composition Scharling, however, only infers from the analysis of the unsaponified Doegling train-oil and the absence of glycerine.
1851, Karl Gotthelf Lehmann, Physiological Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 116Doegling Train Oil. From the doegling (the Balœna rostrata of Chemnitz, Hyperodon of later zoologists), a kind of dolphin.
1866, Leopold Gmelin, Hand-Book of Chemistry, London: Cavendish Society, page 180
Origin
- Faroesedøglingur
- Danishdøgling
- Englishdoegling
From a typographical variant of Danish døgling, from Faroese døglingur, which now refers to the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus).
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