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unguent

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈʌŋɡjuənt/
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/ˈʌŋɡjuənt/ · /ʌnd͡ʒ(u)ənt/ · /ˈʌŋɡwənt/

Definition of unguent

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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!"”
    “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.”
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noun

  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!"”
    “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.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable)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— […]”

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Etymology

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”).

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