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Astringent   /əstrˈɪndʒənt/   Listen
noun
Astringent  n.  A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc. "External astringents are called styptics."


adjective
Astringent  adj.  
1.
Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
2.
Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.





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"Astringent" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pendle reappeared in Beorminster, wonderfully improved in health and spirits. The astringent waters of Nauheim had strengthened her heart, so that it now beat with regular throbs, where formerly it had fluttered feebly; they had brought the blood to the surface of the skin, and had flushed her ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... piano-stool, Cope, standing alongside, would lay a hand on his. Mrs. Phillips noticed these minor familiarities and remarked on them to Foster, who had lately wheeled his chair in. Foster, a few days later, passed the comment on to Randolph, with an astringent comment of his own.—At all events, Amy Leffingwell remained in the distance, and George Pearson shared the distance ...
— Bertram Cope's Year • Henry Blake Fuller
... rarely of benefit in the local forms of hyperidrosis, and external applications are seldom of service in general hyperidrosis. Precipitated sulphur, a teaspoonful twice daily, is also well spoken of, combined, if necessary, with an astringent. ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon
... he feigned sick and sent for Osmond. That worthy prescribed a pill and a draught, the former laxative, the latter astringent. This ceremony performed, Mr. Hardie gossipped with him; and, after a detour or two, glided to his real anxiety. "Sampson tells me you know more about Captain Dodd's case than he does: he is not very clear as to the cause of ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... found that our tea leaves, which had been boiled twice and would otherwise have been thrown away, relieved the pain if tied into some cotton and kept pressed against the eyes. The tannic acid in the tea acted as an astringent. A snowblind man can see practically nothing anyhow and so he is not much worse off if a handkerchief is tied ...
— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard


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