Oleomargarine

3 definitions found

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

  Oleomargarine \O`le*o*mar"ga*rine\, n. [L. oleum oil + E.
     margarine, margarin.] [Written also {oleomargarin}.]
     1. A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by
        separating the greater portion of the solid fat or
        stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of
        olein and palmitin with some little stearin. [archaic]


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. An artificial butter made by emulsifying a fatty oil with
        more or less milk and water; it was formerly made
        predominantly from animal fats, but now is made
        predominantly or exclusively from vegetable oils,
        sometimes mixed with animal fats.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     Note: Oleomargarine was wrongly so named, as it contains no
           margarin proper, but olein, palmitin, and stearin, a
           mixture of palmitin and stearin having formerly been
           called margarin by mistake.
           [1913 Webster]

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

  Margarine \Mar"ga*rine\ (m[aum]r"j[u^]*r[i^]n;
     m[aum]r`j[u^]*r[=e]n"), n. [F.; see {margarin}.]
     1. A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute
        for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils,
        sometimes including animal fats, and churned with skim
        milk to form a semisolid emulsion; also called
        {oleomargarine}; artificial butter.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
  
              The word margarine shall mean all substances,
              whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in
              imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter
              or not.                               --Margarine
                                                    Act, 1887 (50
                                                    & 51 Vict. c.
                                                    29).
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. Margarin.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  oleomargarine
       n : a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a
           substitute for butter [syn: {margarine}, {margarin}, {oleo},
            {marge}]