Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, lint; a tent for a wound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.
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- noun surgery
lint , especially when made into atent forinsertion intowounds orulcers
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Examples
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Wallenstein is next to play a joke on Koho, putting linament in a bottle of Scotch.
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I also found that what works well besides RICE rest,ice,compression,elevation is – oddly – horse linament.
In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Riding lessons — DUMPED 2009
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One of them tasted (to me) like the smell of linament.
Fiiday Thought Processes and Woodstock meandering.. deep_bluze 2004
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Jack re-corked the bottle of linament he had been massaging into his horse's legs.
The Frozen Heart Cassidy, Laura 1995
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Time dragged; Danny stayed glued, smelling linament, feeling his muscle aches return.
The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988
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Danny drove home, checked to make sure his files and pictures were secure in their hiding place, hot-showered and daubed linament on the bruises that were starting to form on his back.
The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988
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When they were ill the doctor would be sent for or "Old Mistis" would come to the cabins bringing her basket of oil, pills, and linament.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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You will not expect me to speak on politics -- I have just escaped from that briar-patch, and I am still using linament.
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On the other hand, I pride myself on being a good judge of character, and he carried Nobility in every linament.
Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917
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On the other hand, I pride myself on being a good judge of character, and he carried Nobility in every linament.
Bab: a Sub-Deb Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
stpeter commented on the word linament
Did you mean lineament?
December 28, 2006