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un·guent    Audio Help   [uhng-gwuhnt] Pronunciation Key
–noun
an ointment or salve, usually liquid or semiliquid, for application to wounds, sores, etc.
[Origin: 1400–50; late ME < L unguentum, alter. (prob. by assoc. with the suffixes -men, -mentum) of unguen fat, grease, deriv. of unguere to smear, anoint]

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un·guen·tar·y    Audio Help   [uhng-gwuhn-ter-ee] Pronunciation Key, adjective
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un·guent    Audio Help   (ŭng'gwənt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A salve for soothing or healing; an ointment.


[Middle English, from Latin unguentum, from unguere, to anoint.]

un'guen·tar'y (-těr'ē) adj.
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unguent 
"ointment," c.1440, from L. unguentem "ointment," from stem of unguere "to anoint or smear with ointment," from PIE base *ongw- "to salve, anoint" (cf. Skt. anakti "anoints, smears," Armenian aucanem "I anoint," O.Pruss. anctan "butter," O.H.G. ancho, Ger. anke "butter," O.Ir. imb, Welsh ymenyn "butter").

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unguent

noun
semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation [syn: ointment] 

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un·guent (nggwnt)
n.

A soothing or medicinal salve.
unguen·tary (-tr) adj.

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Main Entry: un·guent
Pronunciation: '&[ng]-gw&nt also '&n-j&nt
Function: noun
: a soothing or healing salve : OINTMENT

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Unguent

A*noint"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Anointing.] [OF. enoint, p. p. of enoindre, fr. L. inungere; in + ungere, unguere, to smear, anoint. See Ointment, Unguent.]

1. To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.

And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. --Dryden.

He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. --John ix. 6.

2. To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.

Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his [Aaron's] head and anoint him. --Exod. xxix. 7.

Anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. --1 Kings xix. 15.

The Lord's Anointed, Christ or the Messiah; also, a Jewish or other king by "divine right." --1 Sam. xxvi. 9.
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