Softening: alternatives and connections

Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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The act or process of macerating.

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To make soft or more soft.

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To make soft or more soft.

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Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.

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Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.

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of Salve

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