Dictionary entry

EMOLLIENT

Webster's Dictionary 1828

EMOL'LIENT, adjective Softening; making supple; relaxing the solids.

Barley is emollient

EMOL'LIENT, noun A medicine which softens and relaxes, or sheaths the solids; that which softens or removes the asperities of the humors.

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