Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of empy-reumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, formerly used in medicine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A kind of
empyreumatic oil produced by thecombustion oftextures ofhemp ,linen , orcotton in acopper vessel , formerly used as aremedial agent .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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