Word Meanings - UNGUENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment. Cowper. Note: An unguent is stiffer than a liniment, but softer than a cerate.

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• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• 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
• CERATE
  An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin. Note: Cerate consists
• UNGUENTARY
  Like an unguent, or partaking of its qualities.
• UNGUENT
  A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment. Cowper. Note: An unguent is stiffer than a liniment, but softer than a cerate.
• LUBRICANT
  Lubricating.
• SALVER
  One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack.
• SALVER-SHAPED
  Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.
• LINIMENT
  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.
• UNGUENTOUS
  Unguentary.
• CERATED
  Covered with wax.
• SALVE
  Hail!
• BURNSTICKLE
  A stickleback .
• INCARCERATE
  1. To imprison; to confine in a jail or priso 2. To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia , hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.
• LACERATE; LACERATED
  Jagged, or slashed irregularly, at the end, or along the edge. (more info) 1. Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.
• DILACERATE
  To rend asunder; to tear to pieces. Sir T. Browne.
• LACERATE
  To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• ACERATE
  A combination of aceric acid with a salifiable base.
• ANOINTMENT
  The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton.
• 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
• EMACERATE
  To make lean or to become lean; to emaciate. Bullokar.
• FOSSORES
  A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched.
• SCANSORES
  An artifical group of birds formerly regarded as an order. They are distributed among several orders by modern ornithologists. Note: The toes are in pairs, two before and two behind, by which they are enabled to cling to, and climb upon, trees,
• CANCERATE
  To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.
• RASORES
  An order of birds; the Gallinæ. Note: Formely, the word Rasores was used in a wider sense, so as to include other birds now widely separated in classification.