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liniment

[ UK /lˈɪnɪmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain

How To Use liniment In A Sentence

  • The scorched surface should be covered with this liniment and then with a layer of borated gauze or absorbent cotton, to protect from the air. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • They are business professionals looking to take breaks from their regular routine and shuffle into a hard-knock world of dank locker rooms, sweaty ring towels, liniment, spit buckets and crusty old trainers.
  • Massage was developed in connection with incantation, rubbing the spirit out of the body, and was preceded by efforts to rub medicine in, in a similar fashion to rubbing liniments in.
  • But every animal part is traded, from serow tongues (consumed to treat headaches) and goral legs (ground into a liniment for joint ailments) to the skins of white-browed gibbons and capped leaf monkeys (made into shoulder bags).
  • Oil of Wintergreen, which you find in liniments, is Methyl salicylate.
  • “My back itches, Spiller,” Galan said, and Spiller took off the bandage and poulticed the wound with foul-smelling liniment, and obligingly scratched up and down his spine. Wildfire
  • Oil of wintergreen, also known as methyl salicylate, is a time-honored rub or liniment used for sprains, strains, aches, pains and arthritis.
  • Old codgers rub sore joints and look for liniment.
  • Some of these "Method" concerns throw in some absurd kind of liniment, salve or ointment -- tell you the secret lies in this "lymph" or whatever they call it rather than in their appliances. Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
  • Meggie came back with the horse liniment, but made no offer to rub it on, just handed him the bottle silently. THE THORN BIRDS
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