Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A liniment or soft unguent prepared from oil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A soft ointment prepared from oil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine, obsolete A soft
ointment prepared fromoil .
Etymologies
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Latin oleum ("olive oil"), probably via *oleamen (-men is an alternative neuter suffix).
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