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▪ I. unguent, n.|ˈʌŋgwənt|
Also 5 vngwent, 6–7 vnguent.
[ad. L. unguent-um, f. unguĕre to anoint. Cf. F. onguent, It., Sp., Pg. unguento.]
An ointment or salve.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. iv. 147 Or madifie hit so in oil lauryne, Let drie hem, sowe hem, vp by oon assent They wol, and haue odour like her vnguent. 1448–9J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes 1500 For had not a bene that precyus vngwent, He had be slayn and on pecys rente. 1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 7 Unto whiche I haue also added no smal number of vnguents. 1624Heywood Gunaik. iii. 131 Forgetting the Physitions with all their drugges, unguents, and emplasters. 1656J. Smith Pract. Physick 66 Unguents for scaldings must be made so that they stick not too fast. 1720Pope Iliad xxiii. 229 Celestial Venus hover'd o'er his head, And roseate unguents, heav'nly fragrance! shed. 1778Lightfoot Flora Scot. II. 618 The buds yield a yellow resinous unguent. 1857Maurice Ep. St. John x. 162 Oils and unguents in the East had a virtue which we do not commonly attach to them. 1887Bowen æneid iii. 280 Bared and anointed shoulders with glistening unguent stream.
attrib.1894Daily News 13 Dec. 8 A small unguent bottle, only slightly damaged, was in this part of the building.
b. fig. or in fig. context.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 19 Soules sweet Emplastrum, unguent of the eyes. a1625Fletcher & Mass. Elder Bro. v. i, Your festred reputation, which no Balm or gentle Unguent could ever make way to. a1683Owen Two Discourses Holy Spirit (1693) 62 An Unction, an Unguent from the Holy One. 1838James Louis XIV, I. 257 There was no unguent which made the wheels of their foreign policy move so rapidly as gold.
c. spec. (See quot.)
1867Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) III. 971 Unguents, the name given by engineers to the greases applied to the bearing parts of machinery.
▪ II. ˈunguent, v.
[f. prec. Cf. L. unguent-āre, It. -are.]
trans. To treat with an unguent; to anoint.
1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 42 When they found their Ears unguented with warm water. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 689 A Medick should be Unguented, that is, Perfumed. 1819Metropolis III. 194 Brushing, perfuming, unguenting, and twisting about the hair. 1918A. Quiller-Couch Foe-Farrell xvi. 273 ‘I under⁓stand,’ said I, looking up from my business of unguenting the stoker, who was not badly burnt.
▪ III. ˈunguent, a. rare.
[f. unguent n. or v.]
Of a person: emollient in manner, unctuous.
1931Belloc Cranmer ii. 30 He shrank, withdrew, was suave and unguent. |