0 a thick substance, usually with a pleasant smell, used to treat skin problems or make the skin soft:
She smelled powerfully of bath salts and unguents.
It is similar to an ointment, though typically an unguent is less viscous and more oily.
The statue is anointed with red unguent, typically made of "kumkum" and sandalwood paste.
The same name was also given to unguents used for the same purpose, such as unguent of tutty.
The size of drills was small-to-large, small for small unguent jars, and large for more massive, grain-storing pottery.
The bowls were either a type of unguent jar, or a toiletry kohl cosmetic vessel.
When applied in the form of a powder, the wolf unguent would be used to cure epilepsy, plague and gout.
It is clear, brothers, that the woman previously used the unguent to perfume her flesh in forbidden acts.
Macassar oil was an unguent for the hair commonly used in the early 19th century.
