Crossword-Solution: UNGUENT 7 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Hast thou that unguent of which thou speakest?” The peasant, fumbling in his bosom with a trembling hand, produced a small box, bearing some Hebrew characters on the lid, which was, with most of the audience, a sure proof that the devil had stood apothecary.

Tirant bought some very old whale bile, and then he took quicksilver, saltpeter, Roman sulfate and other materials, and mixed them together to make an unguent, and he put it in a box.

Tirant, under the pretext that he was simply looking, went near them, and spreading some of the unguent he had prepared over his hand, he put it on every one of the bombards.

The unguent was made up of such ingredients that whatever metal it came into contact with would, in the space of three hours, turn to rust.

Among the methods of this witch activity especially credited in central and southern Europe was the anointing of city walls and pavements with a diabolical unguent causing pestilence.