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

nd candied. -- Barley water, a decoction of barley, used in medicine, as a nutritive and demulcent.

ilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

The root of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice root), used as a demulcent, etc.

ve along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass. Ice-skater = one who skates on ice wearing an ice skate; esp. an athlete who performs athletic or artistic movements on a sheet of ice, wearing ice skates; inclu…

shes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.

a sweet, demulcent, acidulous, or mucilaginous mixture, used as a vehicle. Milton. Honey in woods, juleps in brooks. H. Vaughan.

enus Glycyrrhiza (G. glabra), the root of which abounds with a juice, and is much used in demulcent compositions.

inalis) common in marshes near the seashore, and whose root is much used in medicine as a demulcent. -- Marsh marigold. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Marsh pennywort (Bot.), any plant of the umbelliferous genus Hydrocotyle; low herbs with roundish leaves, growing in wet places; - - called also water pennywort. --…

lunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent. Forsyth.