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Semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
Answer for the clue "Semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation ", 8 letters:
ointment
Alternative clues for the word ointment
- Toiletry consisting of any of various substances resembling cream that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
- Skin treatment? Date to abandon program
- Medicinal cream
- Soothing cream
- Ian Dury & the Blockheads "Fly in the ___"
- Bad place for a fly, in a saying
- Topical medication
- Soothing compound
Word definitions for ointment in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ointment \Oint"ment\, n. [OE. oinement, OF. oignement, fr. F. oindre to anoint, L. ungere, unguere; akin to Skr. a[~n]j, and to G. anke (in Switzerland) butter. The first t in the E. word is due to the influence of anoint. Cf. Anoint , Unguent .] That which ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation [syn: unction , unguent , balm , salve ] toiletry consisting of any of various substances resembling cream that have a soothing and moisturizing ...
Usage examples of ointment.
The skin of this young creature, from continual ablutions and the use of mollifying ointments, was inconceivably smooth and soft.
For the first time in three years neat tubes of aureomycin ointment for udder sores were neatly stacked in the old space on the shelf.
She had isopropyl alcohol, peroxide, cotton balls, Band-Aids, Q-Tips, zinc ointment, Bacitracin, an Ace bandage, and a small bottle of Mercurochrome.
He let the private get up at last and get dressed, then sent him off with some bacitracin ointment and a jock strap.
Her arm, she discovered, was bandaged heavily over some slick and foul-smelling ointment.
Parkinson speaks highly of the bruised herb, or of its expressed juice, for scrofulous swellings when applied outwardly in the form of an ointment.
The bruised herb, or an ointment made from it, is applied by rustics to heal fresh cuts and contusions.
An ancient nun came from the convent to spread a soothing ointment over his skin, all the while clucking her tongue.
It also seems to deodorize foul-smelling sores when applied in an ointment.
In rifling the closet of the ladie, they found a wafer of sacramental bread, having the divels name stamped thereon in steed of JESUS Christ, and a pipe of ointment, wherewith she greased a staffe, upon whish she ambled and gallopped through thicke and thin when and in what manner she listed.
Against ringworm an ointment made with one drachm of thymol to an ounce of soft paraffin is found to be a sure specific.
While Bulen gave his boots a much-needed blacking, Lan washed himself from head to toe at the washstand rather than waiting for a bathtub to be brought, and dabbed an ointment that Anya sent Esne for onto his welts, but he let the women dress him.
The last of my vertebral bones, called by doctors the os sacrum, felt as if it had been crushed to atoms, although I had used almost the whole of a pot of ointment which Esther had given me for that purpose.
I begged her to do my hair, intending to dismiss her directly after, but when she had finished I asked her to give me the ointment.
She was obliged to touch it to continue rubbing the ointment in, and I saw that she liked it, as she touched it when she had no need, and not being able to stand it any longer I took hold of her hand and made her stop her work in favour of a pleasanter employment.