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Webster 1913 Edition


Unguent

Un′guent

(?; 277)
,
Noun.
[L.
unguentum
, from
unguere
,
ungere
, to anoint: cf. F.
onguent
. See
Ointment
, and cf.
Unction
,
Unctuous
.]
A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment.
Cowper.
☞ An unguent is stiffer than a liniment, but softer than a cerate.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unguent

UN'GUENT

,
Noun.
[L. unguentum, from ungo, to anoint.]
Ointment; a soft composition used as a topical remedy, as for sores, burns and the like. An unguent is stiffer than a liniment, but softer than a cerate.

Definition 2024


unguent

unguent

English

Noun

unguent (plural unguents)

  1. Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.
    • 1809-1812William Combe, Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque
      "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!"
    • 1853Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece
      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.
    • 1890Arthur Conan Doyle, A Literary Mosaic
      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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Latin

Verb

unguent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of unguō