What does "astringent" mean?
Astringent: Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
Additional senses
- 2.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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