doegling – English noun declension

English noun forms of doegling

Noun: doegling
Singulardoegling
Pluraldoeglings

Sample Sentences

  • 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 116:]
  • Doegling 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:]
  • 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 374:]

Etymology

From a typographical variant of Danish døgling, from Faroese døglingur, which now refers to the northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus). See: Faroese Nouns 'døglingur'.