: a liquid or semiliquid preparation that is applied to the skin as an anodyne or a counterirritant
For four or five days afterward, she felt poorly. Friends came to see about her. Some made camomile tea; others rubbed her with liniment Toni Morrison
… after your walk, soak your feet in warm, not hot, water, followed with some kind of cooling liniment.Prevention
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe only constant was the way people put on their stickers: all of them with such tenderness as if rubbing liniment into the injustice. Steve Hartman, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2020 Elixir bottles can be exchanged for wellness liniments of equal or lesser value. Evan Waite, The New Yorker, 19 May 2020 With the patent medicine business in its prime, elixirs and liniments promised relief from every complaint under the sun. Lloyd Minor, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019 Pheeranut and Tapanat, who had driven separately from Bangkok, waited in a trainer’s room that smelled of liniment. Shashank Bengalistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019 Pheeranut and Tapanat, who had driven separately from Bangkok, waited in a trainer’s room that smelled of liniment. Shashank Bengalistaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019 In other words, Varejao endorsed the use of arnica do mato as a liniment. Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 4 May 2016 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Late Latin linimentum, from Latin linere to smear — more at lime