ASTRINGENT
\ɐstɹˈɪnd͡ʒənt], \ɐstɹˈɪndʒənt], \ɐ_s_t_ɹ_ˈɪ_n_dʒ_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of ASTRINGENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
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A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.
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Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; - opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
By Oddity Software
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Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
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A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.
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Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; - opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Binding: contracting: strengthening.
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A medicine that causes contraction.
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ASTRINGENTLY.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Causing contraction and arresting discharges.
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An agent that arrests discharges.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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