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Meaning of blue ointment | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Mercurial ointment.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“His arm was placed on a rectangular splint, wrapped in a piece of lint thickly smeared with blue ointment, and the whole covered with oil-silk; and he was ordered a purge of blue pill followed by senna and salts.”
“In this article we called attention to the fact that blue ointment was more volatile than calomel.”
“The worst I got was the crabs and I got rid of those with blue ointment.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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