unguent
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈʌŋɡjuənt/ / /ʌnd͡ʒ(u)ənt/ / /ˈʌŋɡwənt/
adj
Etymology: 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”).
- Taking the form of a cream or ointment.
“In vials of ivory and coloured glass / Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes, / Unguent, powdered, or liquid— […]”
noun
Etymology: 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”).
- 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!"”
“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.”