Astringent
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Astringent [1]
(1): (a.) Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; - opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
(2): (a.) Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
(3): (n.) A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.
