The action of levigate, v.; ‘the trituration or rubbing down of a substance in a mortar or on a slab, with sufficient moisture to make it soft’ (New S…

(See quots.)

The preparation of an ointment by the mixing (emulsification) of an oil and vinegar or other liquid. Cf. nourished, adj. 2, nutrite, v., nutritum, n.…

The slaking (of lime); †‘the quenching of red-hot minerals in some liquor, to abate their sharpness, or to impart their virtue to the liquor’…

Plunging in, immersion; submergence, drowning. Obsolete or rare.

(a) adj. that rolls pills; (Medicine) involving a circular movement of the fingers and thumb, as though rolling a pill (of tremors, etc., as a…

Homoeopathy. The vigorous shaking of a preparation of a drug.

the process of covering something, esp. a pill, with a smooth, pearly coating; a smooth, pearly layer covering something.

Precipitation of a substance by the cooling of a solution or suspension; spec. the formation or production of a preparation of clotting factor…

The process of enclosing substances in microcapsules.