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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.

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  • 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.

 

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