Liniment vs Lineament - What's the difference?
liniment | lineament |
A topical medical preparation intended to be rubbed into the skin with friction, as for example to relieve symptoms of arthritis.
Any distinctive shape or line etc.
(senseid)A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of the face of an individual.
* 1927 , John Crowe Ransom, Dead Boy
As nouns the difference between liniment and lineament
is that liniment is a topical medical preparation intended to be rubbed into the skin with friction, as for example to relieve symptoms of arthritis while lineament is any distinctive shape or line etc.As a verb liniment
is to apply liniment to.liniment
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(en noun) (wikipedia liniment)lineament
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(en noun)- A pig with a pasty face, so I had said,
- Squealing for cookies, kinned by poor pretense
- With a noble house. But the little man quite dead,
- I see the forbears' antique lineaments .