Astringent

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.