embrocation
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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
Ordinary muscular strains generally yield to a good rubbing with an embrocation.
From Rowing by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann
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
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
"I should hope so," replied I; "what is it you require—a lotion, or an embrocation?"
From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat