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Unguent

//ˈʌŋɡjuənt// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Taking the form of a cream or ointment. not-comparable

    "In vials of ivory and coloured glass / Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, / Unguent, powdered, or liquid— […]"

Noun
  1. 1
    Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.

    ""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!""

  2. 2
    semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“I 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”).

Etymology 2

From Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“I 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”).

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