Associations to the word «Unguent»

Wiktionary

UNGUENT, noun. Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.

Dictionary definition

UNGUENT, noun. Semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne