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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Astringent

/(-jent)/ · As·trin·gent · IPA /əˈstɹɪn.d͡ʒənt/
01 a. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astrin…
  1. 1.
    Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
  2. 2.
    Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
02 n. A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.
  1. 1.
    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.