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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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15 words match “COSMETIC”

COSMETIC n.
Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.
COSMETIC; COSMETICAL a.
Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation. First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers. Pope.
BALM n.
, a warm, bitterish, aromatic taste, and a fragrant smell. It is valued as an unguent and cosmetic by the Turks. The fragrant herb Dracocephalum Canariense is familiarly called balm of Gilead, and so are the American trees, Populus balsamifera, variety candicans (balsam poplar), and Abies balsamea (balsam fir).…
BAY RUM n.
A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.
BLANC n.
A white cosmetic.
CERUSE n.
A cosmetic containing white lead. To distinguish ceruse from natural bloom. Macaulay.
CHIAN a.
earth, a dense, compact kind of earth, from Chios, used anciently as an astringent and a cosmetic. -- Chian turpentine, a fragrant, almost transparent turpentine, obtained from the Pistacia Terebinthus.
CREAM n.
A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation. In vain she tries her paste and creams, To smooth her skin or hide its seams. Goldsmith.
ENAMEL v.
To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
PAINT n.
A cosmetic; rouge. Praed.
PEARL n.
-- Pearl white. (a) Basic bismuth nitrate, or bismuth subchloride; - - used chiefly as a cosmetic. (b) A variety of white lead blued with indigo or Berlin blue.
ROUGE n. 2 definitions
owder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.
SPERMACETI n.
obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin. Spermaceti whale (Zo…
SURFEL; SURFLE v.
To wash, as the face, with a cosmetic water, said by some to be prepared from the sulphur. [Obs.] She shall no oftener powder her hair, [or] surfel her cheeks, . . . but she shall as often gaze on my picture. Ford.
WASH n.
A liquid cosmetic for the complexion.