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Webster 1913 Edition

Repellent

Re-pel′lent

(-lent)
,
Adj.
[L.
repellens
,
-entis
, p. pr. ]
Driving back; able or tending to repel.

Re-pel′lent

,
Noun.
1.
That which repels.
2.
(Med.)
A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
Dunglison.
3.
A kind of waterproof cloth.
Knight.

Webster 1828 Edition

Repellent

REPEL'LENT

,
Adj.
Driving back; able or tending to repel.

REPEL'LENT

,
Noun.
In medicine, a medicine which drives back morbid humors into the mass of the blood, from which they were unduly secreted; or which prevents such an afflux of fluid to a part, as would raise it to a tumor; a discutient.

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