DEMULCENT

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.

2.
n.

A substance, usually of a mucilaginous or oily nature, supposed to be capable of soothing an inflamed nervous membrane, or protecting i


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