unguent

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She sent Jehane for boxes of unguent, her colour-boxes, brush for the eyebrows, powder for the face.

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  1. noun A salve for soothing or healing; an ointment.

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  • You pressed the button and the monster disappeared in a cloud of unguent, smoke. —  The Waker Dreams
  • He gripped the edge of the table against which he was leaning and kept his lips shut as Pringle rebathed the wound, smeared it with some unguent, then laid gauze across it before bandaging him up. —  Stephanie Laurens - A Fine Passion
  • She dabbed at the tick bites with unguent, but didn't accomplish much. —  The Color of Her Panties
  • I don't know about you guys, but I'm still having trouble with the word "salvific" It just sounds like some kind of unguent to me … —  Knowledge is Power
  • The writer showed conclusively that such and such an unguent or soap often produced an effect exactly opposite to that intended, and the ointment, or the soap, acted as a tonic upon a skin that required a lenitive treatment, or vice versa Birotteau saw a fortune in the book, and bought it. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
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  1. Middle English, from Latin unguentum, from unguere, to anoint.

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  1. from Middle English unguent = French onguent = Provencal onguen, enguen, enguent = Spanish Portuguese Italian unguento, from Latin unguentum, ointment, from ungere, unguere, smear, anoint, = Sanskrit añj, smear, anoint. From the L. verb are also ult. English unction, unctuous, oint, anoint, ointment, inunction, etc.
 

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