Synonyms for ointment


Grammar : Noun
Spell : oint-muhnt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔɪnt mənt

Top 10 synonyms for ointment Other synonyms for the word ointment

Définition of ointment

Origin :
  • late 13c., from Old French oignement "ointment, salve, unguent," from Vulgar Latin *unguimentum, from Latin unguentum (see unguent). The first -t- emerged in Old French from oint, past participle of verb oindre "to anoint."
  • noun cream for treatment
Example sentences :
  • He put the filings in a little pot which had been used for ointment of some kind.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • Melt the wax with the lard over a gentle fire, and sprinkle in the tutty, continually stirring them till the ointment is cold.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • Take an ounce of the ointment called nutritum, the yolk of a small egg, or the half of a large one, and mix them well together.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • In such a case, is the substance which is anointed the same as the colour or ointment?
  • Extract from : « Lysis » by Plato
  • There's only one small fly in the ointment, so far as I can see.
  • Extract from : « Lighter Than You Think » by Nelson Bond
  • There are bound to be vexations, flies in the ointment, as we say.
  • Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Also he touched the lids of the sore-eyed and they said his fingers were as ointment.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • Externally, vesicant; used in form of ointment, or tincture.
  • Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings
  • The ointment has got to soak in, and the skin has got to be kept warm.
  • Extract from : « Plotting in Pirate Seas » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
  • But Bothwell had managed to inject a fly into the ointment of my content.
  • Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine

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