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Liniment  n.  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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"Liniment" Quotes from Famous Books



... clothes. Tested rock. Fine looking mineral country here. Dressed Monte's withers with liniment greatly reducing swelling from saddle-gall. He likes to have it dressed & came of his ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower

... a very effective remedy, but you must watch the throat very carefully as this will blister quickly. After removing the liniment, grease the parts with oil ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... be very interesting. Aunt Olivia was not to worry about the rubbers, and Rebecca Mary would never forget to air her clothes when they came from the wash. Yes, she had aired the nightgown that Aunt Olivia ironed the last thing. No, she hadn't needed any liniment yet, but she wouldn't ...
— Rebecca Mary • Annie Hamilton Donnell

... chickens a week longer than could be expected and now don't get no credit for it," said Mother Mayberry, as the singer lady gave vent to the giggle she had been suppressing for a good many minutes. "Now run on, sweet child, and use them beguilements on Tom for me, while I go try to rub some liniment on Mis' Tutt's conscience. Fill up Martin Luther sometime soon, ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess

... her, do you? Well, you'd better believe she returns the compliment. Mother was down to the store this afternoon buyin' liniment for Seth Strout, an' she met Miss Dearborn on the bridge. They got to talkin' 'bout school, for mother has summer-boarded a lot o' the schoolmarms, an' likes 'em. 'How does the little Temperance girl git along?' asks ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... cried Rad. "Maybe we can fix up your arm. I know how to make a dandy liniment that my mother used on me when ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick

... a complete outfit of holeproof clothing, and his motor will be a Ford of seventeen thicknesses, with armoured steel windows, and fitted with first-aid accessories, including liniment, restoratives and raw steak. His entourage will include a day doctor, a night doctor, a leading New York surgeon and a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 7th, 1920 • Various

... The flesh of the cheek and ear were swollen and lacerated. Deponent further declares that he administered an opiate and dressed and put a number of stitches in the injured parts and bound them with a bandage soaked in liniment. Then deponent returned to his home, blindfolded as he had left it. He declares that the time consumed in the journey from the shanty to his home was one ...
— The Light in the Clearing • Irving Bacheller

... old man said, "With 'Mustang Liniment' 'tis spread, Another vacant spot thar aint." He answered with ...
— Excelsior • Bret Harte

... not. I'll use some liniment when I get back. It wasn't your fault at all. It was that Heller's confounded meanness, and I've ...
— Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck • Allen Chapman

... came, found that Jerry's leg was not broken, left liniment, some quieting medicine to use if the patient could not sleep, and went away. Still Uncle Jabez had not returned ...
— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson



Words linked to "Liniment" :   embrocation, lotion, application



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