[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.15822 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15822 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.15822 - **Language:** English ### [c10.15822](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15822) \*\*WOOD-OIL\*\*, or \*\*GURJUN OIL\*\*, s. Beng.—\*H. garjan\*. A thin balsam oil drawn from a great forest tree (N.O. \*Dipterocarpeae\*) \*Dipterocarpus turbinatus, Gaertn.\*, and from several other species of \*Dipt.\*, which are among the finest trees of Transgangetic India. Trees of this N.O. abound also in the Malay Archipelago, whilst almost unknown in other parts of the world. The celebrated Borneo camphor is the product of one such tree, and the \*saul-wood\* of India of another. Much wood-oil is exported from the Burmese provinces, the Malay Peninsula, and Siam. It is much used in the East as a natural varnish and preservative of timber; and in Indian hospitals it is employed as a substitute for copaiva, and as a remedy for leprosy (Hanbury & Flückiger, \*Watt, Econ. Dict.\* iii. 167 seqq.). The first mention we know of is c. 1759 in Dalrymple’s \*Or. Repertory\* in a list of Burma products (i. 109). - [Previous: c10.15821](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15821) - [Next: c10.15823](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15823) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15822](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.15822) · Pramāṇa