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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