Word Meanings - LINIMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A liquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant.
Related words: (words related to LINIMENT)
- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - OINTMENT
That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent. (more info) anoint, L. ungere, unguere; akin to Skr. a, and to G. anke (in Switzerland) butter. The first t in the E. word is due to the - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - LIQUIDATION
The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We - LIQUIDIZE
To render liquid. - LIQUIDLY
In a liquid manner; flowingly. - SEMILIQUIDITY
The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity. - LIQUIDATOR
1. One who, or that which, liquidates. 2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. Mozley & W. - THINNER
One who thins, or makes thinner. - APPLICATE
Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of - APPLICATION
1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the - FRICTIONAL
Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity. Frictional gearing, wheels which transmit motion by surface friction instead of teeth. The faces are sometimes made more or less V-shaped to increase - LIQUIDAMBER
See LIQUIDAMBAR - LIQUIDNESS
The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency. - APPLIABLE
Applicable; also, compliant. Howell. - APPLIEDLY
By application. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - UNLIQUIDATED
Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill. - INAPPLICABILITY
The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness. - PREAPPOINTMENT
Previous appointment. - ANOINTMENT
The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton. - AFFRICTION
The act of rubbing against. - APPOINTMENT
The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever - INCONSISTENCE
Inconsistency.