Synonyms for ointment
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : oint-muhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔɪnt mənt |
Top 10 synonyms for ointment Other synonyms for the word ointment
Définition of ointment
Origin :- late 13c., from Old French oignement "ointment, salve, unguent," from Vulgar Latin *unguimentum, from Latin unguentum (see unguent). The first -t- emerged in Old French from oint, past participle of verb oindre "to anoint."
- noun cream for treatment
- He put the filings in a little pot which had been used for ointment of some kind.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Melt the wax with the lard over a gentle fire, and sprinkle in the tutty, continually stirring them till the ointment is cold.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- Take an ounce of the ointment called nutritum, the yolk of a small egg, or the half of a large one, and mix them well together.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- In such a case, is the substance which is anointed the same as the colour or ointment?
- Extract from : « Lysis » by Plato
- There's only one small fly in the ointment, so far as I can see.
- Extract from : « Lighter Than You Think » by Nelson Bond
- There are bound to be vexations, flies in the ointment, as we say.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Also he touched the lids of the sore-eyed and they said his fingers were as ointment.
- Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
- Externally, vesicant; used in form of ointment, or tincture.
- Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings
- The ointment has got to soak in, and the skin has got to be kept warm.
- Extract from : « Plotting in Pirate Seas » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
- But Bothwell had managed to inject a fly into the ointment of my content.
- Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine
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