fomentt

[ That [ointment] was not vnpleasaunt to our Lorde: but those superfluous sauors & fomentes of the body, which the more it is cherished, the more it riseth & rebelleth against the soul. Vives, Instruction of a Christian Woman, ii. 9. foment (fo-ment'), v. t. [ Sp. Pg. fomentar = It. foment are, water. Creeps Chillne on him? She foments and heats His flesh, but more profoundly burns her own. J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 155. And dive in science for distinguished names, Dishonest fomentation of your pride! Young, Night Thoughts, v. Dry fomentation, in med., an application to a part of the body of something warm and dry, as hot flannel, etc. fomenter (fo-menʼter), n. 1. One who foments; one who encourages or instigates: commonly in a bad sense: as, a fomenter of sedition. A perpetual fomenter and nourisher of sin. Hales, Golden Remains, p. 25. They [vicars] would not then have become the authors and fomenters of all that discord and confusion. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. ix. The small English community was little amenable to the authority of the king's Government, and appears to have been the main fomenters , for purposes of gain, of disorder among the native Irish. Contemporary Rev. , XLIX. 567. 2. A device for applying heat to any part of the body, consisting usually of a tin ve el made to contain hot water, and shaped as its purpose requires. fomes (fo'mēz), n.; pl. fomites (fō'mi-tēz). [L., kindling-wood, touchwood, tinder, The most important fomites are bed-clothes, bedding, woollen garments, carpets, curtains, letters, etc. Quain, Med. Dict. 2. [ cap.] [NL.] In mycology, a subgenus of Polyp or us, or, according to some authors, a genus of Polypore i, composed of perennial indurated species.