Definition of "unguent" []

• A salve for soothing or healing; an ointment. (noun)

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• "Now, Sharpe, the fly in our unguent is the fact these royal guards are all Irish."
• "Sure, someone recently offered to send me some kind of unguent to evaluate, but I declined."
• "Two assistants of the torturer bathed the lacerated shoulders of the culprit, applied to them some kind of unguent which immediately closed the wounds, and threw over his back a yellow cloth shaped like a chasuble; Pierrat Torterue meanwhile letting the blood drain from the lashes of his scourge in great drops on to the ground."