- 1. a. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit. Source: opted
- 2. a. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue. Source: opted
- 3. n. A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc. Source: opted
- 4. adj. sour or bitter in taste Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue Source: wordnet
- 6. n. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals Source: wordnet
- 7. 1. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit. 2. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue. A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc. External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison. Source: webster
- 8. A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in thesoft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison. Source: adambom
- 9. j:56/n:44 n. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals a. tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue Source: ecdict
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