Oleate

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Oleate \O"le*ate\, n. [Cf. F. ol['e]ate.] (Chem.)
     A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury,
     are used in medicine by way of inunction.
     [1913 Webster]