Crossword clues for unguent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unguent \Un"guent\ (?; 277), n. [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.
Note: An unguent is stiffer than a liniment, but softer than a cerate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"ointment," early 15c., from Latin unguentem "ointment," from stem of unguere "to anoint or smear with ointment," from PIE root *ongw- "to salve, anoint" (cognates: Sanskrit anakti "anoints, smears," Armenian aucanem "I anoint," Old Prussian anctan "butter," Old High German ancho, German anke "butter," Old Irish imb, Welsh ymenyn "butter").
Wiktionary
n. Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.
WordNet
Wikipedia
An unguent is a soothing preparation spread on wounds, burns, rashes, abrasions or other topical injuries (i.e. damage to the skin). It is similar to an ointment, though typically an unguent is less viscous and more oily. It is usually delivered as a semi-solid paste spread on the skin and is often oily to suspend the medication or other active ingredients.
During the Victorian era, the use of the unguent Macassar Oil on the hair became so popular that the Antimacassar was invented to prevent damage to furniture.
Usage examples of "unguent".
Amanda seemed happy, perky in a new Karen Millen and smelling faintly of expensively complimentary shampoos and unguents.
Victoria passed the doorway of an herb and root shop, where glass containers of leeches were lined along wooden shelves, and a perfumery with a window full of unguents, creams, and heavily fragrant oils encased in colored glass jars.
Jesus with the spikenard, an unguent that had, very likely, been kept for that specific occasion, and was an ointment associated with burial rites.
And although the devil for the most part performs this by means of this unguent, to the end that children should be deprived of the grace of baptism and of salvation, yet he often seems to affect the same transvection without its use.
You can be a fraud with your creams and your unguents and not be a fraud about being royal.
Over his shoulders he carried his bow and bark quiver of poisoned arrows, and round his waist a belt hung with an array of charms and buck horns filled with magical and medical potions, powders and unguents.
In the thermae of my houses, the guests found every nicety of appointment, right down to Magaleion unguent for the skin and rose-and-cinnamon pastilli for the breath.
Cugel eased the worms in their cinctures, applied unguent and fed each worm a measure of victual.
This powerful emmenagogue was a kind of unguent composed of several drugs, such as saffron, myrrh, etc.
At Pendergast’s request Proctor, his chauffeur, had delivered a variety of items from the Dakota apartment: a small table, a Tiffany lamp, and an array of medicines, unguents, and French chocolates, along with a stack of obscure books and maps.
And also, as has already been shown, witches are taught by the devil to confect from the limbs of such children an unguent which is very useful for their spells.
This reminded me of one of my earliest business ventures, when I patented and attempted to sell Marchbanks' Patent Stay Oil, a scented unguent which was rubbed well into the corsets before putting them on.
He put a dab of the Italian antibacterial unguent Cicatrine on it and it felt better at once.
The vanity table, with three mirrors, was littered with unguents, cold creams, and other cosmetics.
Time and again on this trip I had seen news stories that would elsewhere have been treated as colossal tragedies-a dozen people killed by floods in the South, ten crushed when a store roof collapsed in Texas, twenty-two dead in a snowstorm in the East-and each of them treated as a brief and not terribly consequential diversion between ads for hemorrhoid unguents and cottage cheese.