Word Meanings - LINIMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant.

Related words: (words related to LINIMENT)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• OINTMENT
  That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent. (more info) anoint, L. ungere, unguere; akin to Skr. a, and to G. anke (in Switzerland) butter. The first t in the E. word is due to the
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• LIQUIDATION
  The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• LIQUIDIZE
  To render liquid.
• LIQUIDLY
  In a liquid manner; flowingly.
• SEMILIQUIDITY
  The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.
• LIQUIDATOR
  1. One who, or that which, liquidates. 2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. Mozley & W.
• THINNER
  One who thins, or makes thinner.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• FRICTIONAL
  Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity. Frictional gearing, wheels which transmit motion by surface friction instead of teeth. The faces are sometimes made more or less V-shaped to increase
• LIQUIDAMBER
  See LIQUIDAMBAR
• LIQUIDNESS
  The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• UNLIQUIDATED
  Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• ANOINTMENT
  The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton.
• AFFRICTION
  The act of rubbing against.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• INCONSISTENCE
  Inconsistency.