CREOSOTE
- A dark brown oil distilled from coal tar and used as a wood preservative. It contains a number of phenols, cresols, and other organic compounds
- A colorless, pungent, oily liquid, containing creosol and other compounds, distilled from wood tar and used as an antiseptic
- to treat with a wood preservative [v CREOSOTED, CREOSOTES, CREOSOTING]
- to treat with a wood preservative, also KREASOTE, KREOSOTE [v CREOSOTED, CREOSOTING, CREOSOTES]