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Lambative

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Lambative
    A medicine taken by licking with the tongue; a lincture.
  2. Lambative
    Taken by licking with the tongue. "Sirups and lambative medicines."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. lambative
    That may be licked up; to be taken by licking.
  2. (n) lambative
    A medicine taken by licking.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Lambative
    lam′ba-tiv to be taken by licking
  2. (n) Lambative
    a medicine of such a kind
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. lambere, to lick. See Lambent