Definition of "unguent"

"Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!"

1809–1812, William Combe, Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.

a. 1864, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece

Thou knowest of old that my temper is somewhat choleric, and my tongue not greased with that unguent which oils the mouths of the lip-serving lords of the land.

1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Literary Mosaic