Repellent: Definition and part of speech

Repellent

  1. n. A kind of waterproof cloth.
  2. a. Driving back; able or tending to repel.
  3. n. That which repels.
  4. n. A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.

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.

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