liniment

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This liniment should be applied once a day for two or three days.

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  1. noun A medicinal fluid rubbed into the skin to soothe pain or relieve stiffness.

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  • This liniment should be applied once a day for two or three days If the animal is breathing with great difficulty, persevere in steaming the nostrils, and dissolve 2 drams of chlorate of potassium in every gallon of water he will drink; even if he can not swallow much of it, and even if it is returned through the nostrils, it will be of some benefit to the pharynx as a gargle An electuary of acetate of potash, 2 drams, honey, and licorice powder may be spread on the teeth with a paddle every few hours. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Bill will most likely have some liniment, and that will fix me up With the old lumberman resting on the litter and the four youths carrying this as carefully as possible, the party made its way along the Rick Rack River, which at this point was little better than a mountain torrent. —  The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box
  • He made his pile in some sort of liniment, and helped himself to the Van Dam name when it died out For Mrs. Denyse to redden visibly was manifestly impossible. —  Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage
  • I was taking the bottle of liniment, and one of the lad's sticks struck me on the breast, where I had the bottle in my pocket, and shivered it Struck you with his stick Yes. —  The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias
  • With a merry laugh Tom ran off; and that was the last seen or heard of him that night Before retiring Dick gave his wounded head another application of liniment, and in the morning he was gratified to find that much of the soreness was gone. —  The Rover Boys in the Air From College Campus to the Clouds
 

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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin linīmentum, from Latin linere, linīre, to rub over, anoint; see lei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French liniment = Spanish linimento, linimiento = Portuguese Italian linimento, from Late Latin linimentum, a soft ointment, from linere, rarely linire, smear. Cf. letter, perhaps from the same source.
 

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/ˈlɪnɪmənt/
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