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Another word for unguent

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Noun
      1. An agent that assuages or mollifies.
      2. Something that has a softening or soothing effect; esp., an emollient preparation or medicine applied to surface tissues of the body
      3. An agent that softens or soothes the skin.
      1. A highly viscous or semisolid substance used on the skin as a cosmetic, emollient, or medicament; a salve.
      2. A fatty substance applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes; salve; unguent
      1. Any of various foods or confections made of cream or having a creamy consistency
      2. The color of cream; yellowish white
      3. Any of various substances resembling or containing cream:
    See also:

    balm

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Sentence Examples

  • Each is used in Homer as an unguent (Iliad, xiv.

  • In such cases the influence of the god, communicated to the victim, passed with the unguent into the stone.

  • µbppa; the Arabic murr, bitter, was applied to the substance from its bitterness), a gum-resin highly esteemed by the ancients as an unguent and perfume, used for incense in temples and also in embalming.

  • Its magnitude is the product of the normal pressure or force which presses the rubbing surfaces together in~ a direction perpendicular to themselves into a specific constant already mentioned in 14, as the coefficient of friction, which depends on the nature and condition of the surfaces of the unguent, if any, with which they are covered.

  • Exce~sive heating is prevented by a constant and copious supply of a good unguent.

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