REPELLENT

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Driving back; able or tending to repel.

2.
n.

That which repels.

3.
n.

A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison.

4.
n.

A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight.