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Unguent - What does it mean?

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unguent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.
  • * 1809-1812 — , Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque
    • "Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!"
  • * 1853 —
    • So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.
  • * 1890 —
    • Thou knowest of old that my temper is somewhat choleric, and my tongue not greased with that unguent which oils the mouths of the lip-serving lords of the land.

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