Definition of creosotes:
(n) :
A similar brown liquid obtained from coal tar used as a wood preservative.
(n) :
A pale yellow oily liquid, containing phenols and similar compounds, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, once used medicinally.
(n) :
(countable) The creosote bush.
(n) :
A flammable black porous brittle glassy byproduct of wood burning, typically formed inside chimneys.
(v) :
(transitive) To apply creosote.