embrocation
Example Sentences
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The last sentence, applying a little irony to herself as if it were an embrocation, is what we should value most.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
When all signs of pain are gone, the turpentine is then lowered to one-third, the embrocation being applied only once a-day, because it now gives actual pain.
From The Dog by Dinks
Liza rubs me with embrocation every night, but it torments me cruel.'
From Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Then, for physic, an embrocation containing one-third of turpentine is used thrice daily, to rub the animal's back, neck, and belly with.
From The Dog by Dinks
All along the Ganges, Brahmahputra, and Indus, the oil is universally considered as of great value as an embrocation in rheumatism and for giving much strength when rubbed on the back and loins.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
