† nefte Obs.
[a. Russ. neft' or Pers. neft: see naphtha.]
Naphtha.
| 1598 Hakluyt Voy. I. 400 This oyle is blacke, and is called Nefte. 1662 J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 402 We saw..above thirty sources of Nefte, which is a kind of Medicinal Oil. 1698 J. Crull Muscovy 48 Whole Rivulets of an Oily substance, by them call'd Nefte. |