Meaning of Unguent | Babel Free

Definitions

Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.

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Examples

“"Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!"”

“So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.”

“Thou knowest of old that my temper is somewhat choleric, and my tongue not greased with that unguent which oils the mouths of the lip-serving lords of the land.”

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