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demulcent

adjective

[L. To stroke, to soften; allied perhaps to mollis, mellow.]

Softening; mollifying; lenient; as, oil is demulcent.

demulcent

noun

Any medicine which lessens acrimony, or the effects of stimulus on the solids; that which softens or mollifies; as gums, roots of marsh-mallows, and other mucilaginous substances.