magdaleon

English

Etymology

According to Webster from Ancient Greek μαγδαλιά (magdaliá, “inside of a loaf of bread (on which the Greeks wiped their hands at dinner)”), from μάσσω (mássō, “wipe; kneed”).

Noun

magdaleon (plural magdaleons)

1. (obsolete) A medicine in the form of a roll, especially a roll of plaster.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “magdaleon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Magdaleno