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
- 1920 - A practical medical 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
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 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
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1. Causing contraction of the tissues. 2. Arresting secretion. 3. Styptic, arresting hemorrhage. 4. An agent which causes contraction of the tissues, arrest of the secretion, or the control of bleeding.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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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Binding; contracting; strengthening, opposed to laxative.
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A medicine that contracts the tissues and checks discharges.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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That which contracts or draws together muscular fibre; the principle in bark that tans hides for leather.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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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