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Massage

noun

Kneading and rubbing parts of the body to increase circulation and promote relaxation.

verb

Manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes. Synonyms: knead, rub down.

Give a massage to.

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"Massage" Quotes from Famous Books

... three days, having massage and a vibrator and being rubbed with chloroform liniment. At the end of that time she offered me her divided skirt, ...

— Tish, The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... There are many pathies. These have a tendency to take one part of the human being, or one procedure of treatment, and to play this up to the elimination of all the rest. Some do everything with the mind. Others pay no attention to the mind. Bathing, massage, manipulating the spine, washing out the colon, baths in mud, sunshine or water, suggestion and many other things are separately given credit for being cure-alls. Many of these are excellent as a part of regenerative ...

— Maintaining Health • R. L. Alsaker

... no darkness, the sun dipping at midnight, due north, for a few minutes beneath the horizon. Linday never let up on Strang. He studied his walk, his body movements, stripped him again and again and for the thousandth time made him flex all his muscles. Massage was given him without end, until Linday declared that Tom Daw, Bill, and the brother were properly qualified for Turkish bath and osteopathic hospital attendants. But Linday was not yet satisfied. He put Strang through his whole ...

— The Turtles of Tasman • Jack London

... Gag. He was so Democratic he was ready to Borrow from the Humblest. The same Acquaintances who had tried to Stand In with him when Things were coming his Way, were cutting off Street-Corners and getting down behind their Newspapers to escape the Affectionate Massage, beginning at the Hand and extending to the Shoulder-Blade. It was No Use. He remembered them all, and no ...

— More Fables • George Ade

... undoubtedly a sympathetic communication between the ramifying nerves of the skin of the loins and the lower portion of the spinal cord which contains the sexual centers. Recently, in cases of dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea dysmenorrhagia, and like sexual disorders, massage or gentle flagellation of the parts contiguous with the genitalia and pelvic viscera has been recommended. Taxil is the authority for the statement that just before the sexual act rakes sometimes have themselves ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

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