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onguent

onguent is the archaic form of unguent.

Meaning of unguent

Noun

unguent (plural unguents)

  1. Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.
    • "Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!"1809–1812, William Combe, Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

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Forms of onguent

pluralonguents

Origin of onguent

Borrowed from French onguent.

Questions about onguent

What is onguent the archaic form of?
Onguent is the archaic form of unguent.

Words near onguent in the dictionary

  1. Ongoles
  2. ongone
  3. Ongota
  4. Ongpin
  5. Ongthombam
  6. onguent
  7. onguents
  8. onhand
  9. onhanger
  10. onhangers
  11. onheld

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