What is "lotion"

Usage examples of "lotion".

This boyishness, Charles thinks, is faintly ghoulish, as if the application of aftershave and lotions Clem is always scented has acted like formaldehyde.

We have long known the Red Lotion of Calamine as discovered in ancient times by the Egyptians, applied to soothe irritations of the skin.

Patrick was comfortably unaware of the ridiculous figure he presented in the pink pants and matching calamine lotion.

On the way over she stopped at the grocery store and stocked up on 7-Up, Popsicles, and calamine lotion.

She was lying on the couch dabbing calamine lotion on her legs and reading college catalogs.

Luster in a nightshirt, his face unshaven and liberally spotted with calamine lotion.

They had stopped on their midmorning break and she was squatting over her bag, searching for a spare bottle of calamine lotion.

Returning to StregaSchloss with the morning papers and milk, Latch the butler had vanished bearing a bottle of calamine lotion and a wire brush in the hopes of calming down his new crop of midge bites.

But her son had been a man for a long time now, and those days of dabbing mosquito bites with calamine lotion and healing hurts with kisses were gone forever.

A solution made with borax, two drachms, and morphine, fire grains, dissolved in six ounces of rose-water, makes an excellent lotion to allay the itching.

I sprayed and lotioned myself with Ivoire de Balmain, and selected a sleeveless black linen dress that swirled down to midcalf, mint green quilted leather flats, and small matching shoulder bag.

How I longed for the almost miraculous healing power of the strange salves and lotions of the green Martian women.

Because I knew that for certain, too, that nutsy Zora, with her rages, speeches, scraps of quotes, with her warm whispers for me, her smell of lotion, her wal1eye, her midnight pacing, meetings, and constant grumbling at the way of the world-that she was swirling like some nebula around a livid core of pain.

These were the vags, the bums, the wineheads and the wetbrains from the Bowery, the Sneaky Pete drinkers and the Sweet Lucy lovers, the ones who filtered bottles of after-shave lotion down through a loaf of pumpernickel, the ones who drank canned heat and panther sweat, the ones who had left too many pieces of themselves in too many bars for too many years.

As a purifying and cleansing lotion for wounds and sores, thymol should be mixed in the proportion of five grains thereof to an ounce of spirit of wine, an ounce of glycerine, and six ounces of water.