Definition of "oil paint" []

• A paint in which the vehicle is a drying oil. Also called oil color. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "‘No, I don’t think so,’ said Battle, messing with oil paint which he squeezed from fat and filthy-looking tubes."
• "Gilt-framed portraits of past judges hung on the walls, their thick oil paint glistening darkly in the recessed lights."