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emolient

noun as in salve

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The drinks should be emolient, slightly imbued with nitre and vinegar, and with aromatic fumigation about the belly.

Over this powder apply an emolient poultice, or soft cloths wet in water hot as can be endured.

Like his, the eloquence of the declaration, not contradicting, but enforcing sentiments of the truest humanity, has left stings that have penetrated more than skin-deep into my mind; and never can they be extracted by all the surgery of murder, never can the throbbings they have created be assuaged by all the emolient cataplasms of robbery and confiscation.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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