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blue ointment

blue ointment noun: mercurial ointment.

Noun

blue ointment (usually uncountable, plural blue ointments)

  1. (usually) Mercurial ointment.
    • His arm was placed on a rectangular splint, wrapped in a piece of lint thickly smeared with blue ointment, and the whole covered with oil-silk; and he was ordered a purge of blue pill followed by senna and salts.1861, Richard Barwell, A Treatise on the Joints, page 185
    • In this article we called attention to the fact that blue ointment was more volatile than calomel.1919, Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 73

Forms of blue ointment

pluralblue ointments

Questions about blue ointment

What does blue ointment mean?
Blue ointment means mercurial ointment.
What part of speech is blue ointment?
Blue ointment is a noun.
What is the plural of blue ointment?
The plural of blue ointment is blue ointments.

Words near blue ointment in the dictionary

  1. blue notice
  2. blue notices
  3. blue o'clock
  4. blue oak
  5. blue oaks
  6. blue ointment
  7. blue ointments
  8. blue olive berry
  9. blue orchid
  10. blue orchids
  11. blue pages

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