Crossword clues for emollient
emollient
- 11-Down application
- Toiletry consisting of any of various substances resembling cream that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
- Salve
- Skin softener
- Making soft pork pie in Melton? That's unusual
- Comforting story, set in confines of London, in revolutionary book
- With a soothing effect
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emollient \E*mol"lient\ (?; 105), n. (Med.) An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.
Emollient \E*mol"lient\ (?; 106), a. [L. emolliens, -entis, p.
pr. of emollire to soften; e out + mollire to soften, mollis
soft: cf. F. ['e]mollient. See Mollify.]
Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient. ``Emollient
applications.''
--Arbuthnot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 moisturize. 2 soothe or mollify. n. 1 Something which softens or lubricates the skin. 2 Anything soothe the mind, or that makes something more acceptable.
WordNet
Usage examples of "emollient".
Its leaves are fleshy, with a bitter saline taste, whilst the juice is slightly acrid, but emollient.
The pulp of Turkey Figs is mucilaginous, and has been long esteemed as a pectoral emollient for coughs: also when stewed and, added to ptisans, for catarrhal troubles of the air passages, and of other mucous canals.
He was an artist, who first softened your face with hot cloths, then covered it with emollient creams, smoothed it, freed it of every impurity, and finally covered the wrinkles with cosmetics, lightly treating the eyes with bistre, making the lips delicately rosy, depilating the ears, to say nothing of what he did to the chin and the head.
Their kid leather clutch bags stuffed with crumpled 1955 newsprint, and their morocco-leather-covered diaries with gold-leafed, onionskin pages, remained unopened, un confided in-well, they had had nothing to confide, for their emotional lives had been as stinted of the luxuries of passion and personal dramas as their cool and shallow bathwater had been bereft of emollients and scents.
Perfumed, depilated, moist with emollients, wearing kohl around her eyes, Victoria let Lefty look upon her.
He was an artist, who first softened your face with hot cloths, then covered it with emollient creams, smoothed it, freed it of every impurity, and finally covered the wrinkles with cosmetics, lightly treating the eyes with bistre, making the lips delicately rosy, depilating the ears, to say nothing of what he did to the chin and the head.
She urges greater political action upon her sisters, she champions the right to abortion, she is particularly good in the realm of compassion, that powerful journalistic emollient, and is strong in her defence of beaten wives, incestuously tormented children, and bag ladies in their bewildering variety.
Turned out the loose change she was able to gather on these extracurricular excursions amounted eventually to a pile large enough to trade in on the famous white bungalow where Bud and Glenda had been herding couples down the aisle now for more than thirty years, and if the smooth functioning of this matrimonial machine required certain emollients obtainable only in certain nondomestic locales, then Glenda's periodic absences were a demanding but vital sacrifice.