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blue ointments

blue ointments is the plural of blue ointment.

Meaning of blue 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

Questions about blue ointments

What is blue ointments the plural of?
Blue ointments is the plural of blue ointment.

Words near blue ointments in the dictionary

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  2. blue o'clock
  3. blue oak
  4. blue oaks
  5. blue ointment
  6. blue ointments
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  8. blue orchid
  9. blue orchids
  10. blue pages
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