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A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment. Cowper.

Like an unguent, or partaking of its qualities.

Unguentary.

An unguent of the gods. His dewy locks distilled ambrosia. Milton.

eenish color, 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 f…

The unguent (a composition of oil and wax) with which wrestles were anointed among the ancient Romans.

A compounder. [Obs.] Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood.

An unguent; also, the act of rubbing with the unguent.

An unguent for the hair.

One who sells unguents or perfumery. [Obs.] Jonhson.

at which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

An unguent.

Perfumed ointment; esp., a fragrant unguent for the hair; pomatum; -- originally made from apples.

A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade. Wiseman.

The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction. To be heir, and to be king By sacred unction, thy deserved right. Milton.

Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy. "The unctuous cheese." Longfellow.

ly of a mixture of several of the higher members of the paraffin series. It is used as an unguent, and for various purposes in the arts. See the Note under Petrolatum. [Written also vaselin.]