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Astringency
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Astringency'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/astringency.html. 1828.