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
It is used chiefly in India mixed with oil as an embrocation for rheumatism; given internally it is regarded as an antisyphilitic.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
Madame Tentaillon stooped over him, applying a hot water and mustard embrocation to his feet; and on a chair close by sat a little fellow of eleven or twelve, with his feet dangling.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Now it would have been singularly easy to have affixed a different label to my unrivaled peach-bloom cosmetic and have supplied him with a sure-to-heal embrocation.
From A Prairie Courtship by Bindloss, Harold
Then the pills and mixture are given every other night, and the quantity of turpentine in the embrocation increased to one-half, the other ingredients being of the same amount.
From The Dog by Dinks
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.