Also 5 lynyment, (7 leniment). [ad. L. linīment-um, f. linīre to smear, anoint. Cf. F. liniment.]
† 1. Something used for smearing or anointing.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., XI. 440. In lynyment ffor tonnes best doth askis of sarment.
1691. Ray, Creation, I. (1692), 139. The Bird … compressing the Glandules, squeezes out and brings away therewith an oily Pap or Liniment, most fit and proper for the inunction of the Feathers.
2. An embrocation, usually made with oil.
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., Interpr. straunge Wordes, Liniment is an oyntment.
1593. G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., Wks. (Grosart), II. 252. The Artificial Liniment of Doctor Levinus Lemnius for a comely Beard.
1631. Brathwait, Whimzies, Questman, 127. Leniments, emplasters and unctions.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Anemone, Anemones … boiled in old Wine, and apply’d in the Form of a Liniment.
1829. Lytton, Disowned, 19. Bossolton urged the application of liniments and bandages.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med. (ed. 6), 237. Liniment of Verdigris was formerly an article of the Pharmacopœia.
