Definition of "kerosene" []

• A thin oil distilled from petroleum or shale oil, used as a fuel for heating and cooking, in lamps, and as a denaturant for alcohol. Also called coal oil, lamp oil. (noun)

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• "Well that and soak his robes in kerosene and hope he stands too close to a burning cross."
• "Now I see how, in your mind at least, the destruction of which a truckful of fertilizer and kerosene is capable ican be equated with that of a military-grade semi-automatic firearm and thus both items presumably should be equally free from “prohibition”."
• "Torches soaked in kerosene, ready to burn my house down?"