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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A hard, unctuous, fat- or wax-based solid, sometimes medicated, formerly applied to the skin directly or on dressings.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In ornithology, cered; having a cere.
  2. n. A thick ointment composed of wax, lard, or oil, with other ingredients, applied externally for various medical purposes.
  3. n. Chlorid of silver; horn-silver. See cerargyrite. Also kerate.

Wiktionary

  1. n. medicine, archaic An unctuous preparation for external application — mainly wax (or resin or spermaceti) mixed with oil, lard, and various medicinal ingredients — of a consistency between ointment and plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a hard medicated paste made of lard or oil mixed with wax or resin

Etymologies

  1. Latin ceratum, from cera ("wax"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin cērātum, from cērātus, past participle of cērāre, to cover with wax, from cēra, wax; akin to Greek kēros. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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