[ noun ] the seed of flax used as a source of oil <noun.substance>
Linseed \Lin"seed`\ (l[i^]n"s[=e]d`), n. [OE. lin flax + seed. See {Linen}.] (Bot.) The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained. [Written also {lintseed}.]
{Linseed cake}, the solid mass or cake which remains when oil is expressed from flaxseed.
{Linseed meal}, linseed cake reduced to powder.
{Linseed oil}, oil obtained by pressure from flaxseed.
"It was a fluke," she says. "We had a wonderful makeup man. He was using some kind of linseed oil to remove the acrylic makeup from my face.
A 19th-century factory that once produced linseed oil is pumping out ideas today as the home of a new kind of company, a product consulting firm.