Word Meanings - UNGUENTARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like an unguent, or partaking of its qualities.

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.
PARTAKER
1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.
UNGUENTOUS
Unguentary.
PARTAKE
1. To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others. "Brutes partake in this faculty." Locke. When I against myself with thee partake. Shak.