a. rare. [f. UNGUENT sb. + -OUS.]
1. Smeared with ointment; greasy.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. ii. 73. His bed was full of holes, so that the Flocks broke through the breaches, and stuck all about his fulsome and unguentous Body.
2. Of the nature of ointment.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XIX. 833. Unguentous things hinder transpiration.
1819. Metropolis, III. 151. His unguentous compound has not hindered a spoke from being put into his wheel.
