unguent

IPA: ʌngʌnt

Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.

Examples of "unguent" in Sentences

Now, Sharpe, the fly in our unguent is the fact these royal guards are all Irish.
I made an appointment with him and was shown it floating in a jar of clean unguent.
Sure, someone recently offered to send me some kind of unguent to evaluate, but I declined.
Pearl Hand traded a couple of pieces of shell for a pot of unguent made from spruce needles, boiled pine needles, and red root.
I don't know about you guys, but I'm still having trouble with the word "salvific" It just sounds like some kind of unguent to me …
This powerful emmenagogue was a kind of unguent composed of several drugs, such as saffron, myrrh, etc., compounded with virgin honey.
Two assistants of the torturer bathed the lacerated shoulders of the culprit, applied to them some kind of unguent which immediately closed the wounds, and threw over his back a yellow cloth shaped like a chasuble; Pierrat Torterue meanwhile letting the blood drain from the lashes of his scourge in great drops on to the ground.