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Definitions
semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
Word origin
Borrowed from Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“to smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”). Cognates include Old Prussian anctan, Old High German ancho (German Anke (“butter”)), Welsh ymenyn (“butter”).
Used in a sentence
“"Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!"”
“So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.”
“Thou knowest of old that my temper is somewhat choleric, and my tongue not greased with that unguent which oils the mouths of the lip-serving lords of the land.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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