liniment

• “There is a liniment from the Chinese apothecary called dit da jow.”

  Rub It In

• “Another way is to bruise leeches with oil, and rub the verge with this ointment; or, if it is preferred, the leeches may be put into a bottle, and, thus enclosed, buried in a warm dung-hill until they are dissolved into a coherent mass and form a sort of liniment, which is used for repeatedly anointing the member.”

  gimcrack hospital (PG)

• “Some of these "Method" concerns throw in some absurd kind of liniment, salve or ointment -- tell you the secret lies in this "lymph" or whatever they call it rather than in their appliances.”

  Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured

• “She was ladened with gifts: a jar of tomato relish, a huge cake of maple sugar, a bottle of a new kind of liniment for Grandpa, and such an armful of dahlias and phlox and asters and gladioli as Christina had never seen in her life.”

  In Orchard Glen

• “Mammy, which I suspect of being a kind of liniment that mother had to learn to make on account of the number of the boys and their bruises.”

  Over Paradise Ridge A Romance

• “However, he had some merits; for instance, he could hash hare well and his first profession having been that of distiller, he passed much of his time -- or his masters ', rather -- in trying to invent a new kind of liniment; he also succeeded in the preparation of lamp-black.”

  Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

• “Stale layers of sweat were sweetened by liniment oil and disinfectant.”

  The Guardian: Michael Watson: 'I really come alive by helping others'

• “He got a big stomachache and had to rub his legs with liniment oil.”

  Simon & Schuster: Eliza’s Freedom Road

• “But they sharpen for the postseason, as if covered in magic liniment.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Credits Roll on New York's NBA Season

• “But I let him take a drink of Worth's horse liniment.”

  THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON

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