Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A soothing application; a liniment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An assuasive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
assuasive .
Etymologies
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Latin lenimentum: compare Old French leniment. See lenient.
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Examples
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Indian man some volitile leniment to rub his knee and thye for a pain of which he Complained. the fellow Soon after recovered and have never
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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& arms well rubed with Volitile leniment all of those pore people thought themselves much benifited by what had been done for them, and at 3 P.M. they all returned to their Villages well satisfied. at 5 P.M. Potts, Shabono &c. returned from the Village with about 6 bushels of the root the nativs Call Cowse and Some bread of the Same root.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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