unctuosus

unctuosus [CL unctus+-osus], of the nature or quality of, or containing, a substance suitable for application by smearing, greasy, oily, viscous. b (as sb. f.) kind of plant considered to have healing properties, (esp.) selfheal (Prunella vulgaris). vinum ‥ corruptum, turbidum, ~um, rancidum, piceatum, et vapidum P. Blois Ep. 15. 47C; sunt ‥ media mineralia ‥ que originem ex Mercurio non ducunt ‥ horum ‥ quedam sunt ~a, nec liquefiunt solo humore faciliter, ut auripigmentum, arsenicum, sulphur, et alia sulphurea Correct. Alch. 8; unctosus sapor et dulcis mel vendicat ignis Neckam DS IV 830; sanguis in flebotomia est ~us et in tactu asper ‥ propter adustionem Gad. 46. 1; ista [signa] ‥ mortem signant ‥ si egestio est liquida et urina ~a J. Mirfield Brev. 54; succrevit ‥ scintilla litigii sed posterius alimenta ~a reperiens in flammas evasit Amund. I 369. b ~a, self hele SB 43; ~a folia ‥ habet parum oblonga et parva ‥ A. selhele vel smerwrt Alph. 193; †mintuosa [l. ~a], A. smerwort WW.

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