emolient

• But hidden beneath the flattering and emolient words was a clear message: we need your help to run welfare services on the cheap. —  NSS News
• After a bath, apply petroleum jelly or simple moisturising cream or emolient to help conserve the skin's natural moisture.
• You can relieve the dry sores of nummular dermatitis by soaking in salt water, followed by an application of corticosteroid cream and emolient.
• Over this powder apply an emolient poultice, or soft cloths wet in water hot as can be endured. —  An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time
• "Though I very well know the bland emolient saponaceous qualities both of sack and silver, yet if any great man would say to me, 'I make you rat-catcher to his Majesty, with a salary of £300 a year, and two butts of the best Malaga; and though it has been usual to catch a mouse or two, for form's sake, in public once a year, yet to you, sir, we shall not stand upon these things,' I cannot say I should jump at it; nay, if they would drop the very name of the office, and call me Sinecure to the —  Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.

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