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bandage
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Word definitions for bandage in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Middle French bandage (16c.), from Old French bander "to bind," from bande "a strip" (see band (n.1)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bandage \Band"age\ (b[a^]nd"[asl]j), n. [F. bandage, fr. bande. See Band .] A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES living bandage sterile equipment/water/bandages etc ▪ Rinse the eye with sterile water. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB wrap ▪ They all wrapped up in white bandage stuff. ▪ Eyes wrapped in bandages in the cataract ...
Usage examples of bandage.
Sherry was still in mild disgrace and, with her hands wrapped in acriflavine bandages, she was left in the whaleboat to keep Angelo company.
He soaked the compress with bright yellow acriflavine solution, and bandaged it firmly into place.
The aeronaut, his brow adorned with sticking-plaster, was sitting in a chair by the table, while the doctor was bandaging his splinted forearm.
He opened and cleaned the wounds with something that felt like a wire brush, stitched them up neatly, covered them all with aluminium foil and bandage, fed me a variety of pills then, for good measure, jabbed me a couple of times with a hypodermic syringe.
Rousing myself up and gathering my wits together, I first took off the linen bandages, and I was astonished to find my wounds healed and quite free from pain.
Other Real Compania Irlandesa officers were supervising the squads collecting the Portuguese dead, while ather Sarsfield had taken charge of a dozen men and their wives who were caring for the Portuguese wounded, though without a surgeon there was little they could do except bandage, pray and fetch water.
Toby sent off her friends with a tube of Bacitracin, a box of bandages, and her blessing.
She had isopropyl alcohol, peroxide, cotton balls, Band-Aids, Q-Tips, zinc ointment, Bacitracin, an Ace bandage, and a small bottle of Mercurochrome.
As he fumblingly releases his grip on the bandaged hand she suddenly starts and gives a tiny yelp.
When he comes to the console end of his arc, he lifts his bandaged hand meaningfully and steps past Baram to get a clear view of the board.
Her arm, she discovered, was bandaged heavily over some slick and foul-smelling ointment.
She rose, tested her weight on the bandaged foot, wincing, and went to shake out her sleeping bag by the fire.
His arm already had been swabbed with iodine, sewn up and bandaged and in a sling and he was thanking his luck that his wound was relatively superficial.
In the hall were two stretchers, on each a soldier, both feverish, both bandaged, one partially, the other, Hiraga, completely--head, feet, and hands--outside his soaking uniform.
Irritably Ori ran his right hand over the stubble already covering his shaven pate and face, his left shoulder bandaged and arm still in a sling.