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astringent

1. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit. 2. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue. 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.

Length: 10Scrabble® value: 11Words With Friends® value: 14
Numerology value: 1 (Pythagorean letter-sum). See what this number means on NumberAngel.

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