Crossword-Solution: OBSTRUENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Obstruent | a. | Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine. |
| Obstruent | n. | Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body; as, a medicine which acts as an obstruent. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OBSTRUENT | anagram | BUTTONERS, RESBUTTON |
We have 1 clue for the answer “OBSTRUENT”
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| causing obstruction, esp of the intestinal tract | 1 answer |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with OBSTRUENT (5)
Defn: Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body; as, a medicine which acts as an obstruent.
For food, let them take of the juice of ptisan, or chondrus, with hydrorosatum, and bread in like manner out of water, with some of the sweet potions; and, in a word, let them take such food as is moderately cooling without being obstruent; abstaining altogether from wine, unless they require it for some other cause, such as atony of the stomach, and in that case the kind which is given should be thin, weak, and watery.
The fats then, if they have no acrimony, are emplastic, or obstruent of the pores, more especially if of a drier and more terrene nature, such as well-washed wax.
When burnt it has no longer its obstruent powers, but it is more desiccant and repellent, especially with oxycrate.
Styptics restrain bleeding, either by astringing or cooling, or proving desiccative or obstruent by burning and forming an eschar; and the materials of them have been mentioned in the section on Trochisks.
Quotes with OBSTRUENT (1)
Why do we say razzle-dazzle instead of dazzle-razzle? Why super-duper, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, hocus-pocus, willy-nilly, hully-gully, roly-poly, holy moly, herky-jerky, walkie-talkie, namby-pamby, mumbo-jumbo, loosey-goosey, wing-ding, wham-bam, hobnob, razza-matazz, and rub-a-dub-dub? I thought you'd never ask. Consonants differ in "obstruency" — the degree to which they impede the flow of air, ranging from merely making it resonate, to forcing it noisily past an obstr…