A lenitive medicine or appliance. Also figurative.

A remedy for weariness or pain, typically in the form of a paste or oil; spec. such a remedy used to treat horses.

A person who or thing which mitigates or alleviates; †a soothing remedy (obsolete).

Something that diminishes or lessens; spec. in Medicine. A medicine that abates the violence of a disease. Obsolete.

An assuaging medicine or application, a lenitive, sedative, alleviative.

A mitigative, palliative. Also: a plea in extenuation. Obsolete.

A soothing medicine.

A soothing appliance; an emollient.

A soothing or healing medicine or application. Cf. balm, n.1 5, balsam, n. 2.

A demulcent medicine.

A soothing medicine or application.

A mitigating agent or influence; something that alleviates, soothes, or tempers.

A medicinal substance that has a blunting or dulling effect (on inflammation, pain, etc.); (Dentistry) a local anaesthetic. Now rare.

Medicine. See quots.

A (notional) pill used to calm or relax a person. Frequently in to take a chill pill: to calm down, to relax, to ‘chill out’ (usually in imperative)…