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Ointment vs Gallipot - What's the difference?

ointment | gallipot |

As nouns the difference between ointment and gallipot

is that ointment is a viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient while gallipot is a small glazed earthenware jar once used by apothecaries for holding ointment and medicine.

ointment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.

    • Synonyms

    * salve * unguent

    Related terms

    * anoint

    Derived terms

    * fly in the ointment

    See also

    * cream * inunction * liniment * unction * unctuous * unguent

    External links

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    gallipot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small glazed earthenware jar once used by apothecaries for holding ointment and medicine

    • Usage notes

    Also used in the phrase (gallipot words), meaning “difficult words”, particularly used presumptuously, to give an appearance of being learned, from the use of such difficult words on apothecary jars. (See Cobbett’s political register, Volume 11'' edited by William Cobbett, 1807, page, and ''Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1811) Compare (inkhorn term) (inkhorn).

    See also

    * apothecary's Latin * talk like an apothecary