citrine ointment

English

Noun

citrine ointment (countable and uncountable, plural citrine ointments)

1. (medicine, archaic) A yellowish mercurial ointment, the unguentum hydrargyri nitratis.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “citrine ointment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)