Embrocate: alternatives and connections

Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented…

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a d…

To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten.

To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.

To moisten with dew, or as with dew.

To wet or moisten.

The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.

To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.

A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain spe…

To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; to moisten; to wet.

To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.

drawing of fluid or inflammation away from a diseased part of the body

To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.

The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and w…

A crystalline substance obtained from diseased bile, which becomes blood-red when acted on by nitric acid or ammonia.

Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid…

To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.