Crossword clues for poultice
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poultice \Poul"tice\, n. [L. puls, pl. pultes, a thick pap; akin
to Gr. po`ltos. Cf. Pulse seeds.]
A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous
substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the
body, etc.; a cataplasm. ``Poultice relaxeth the pores.''
--Bacon.
Poultice \Poul"tice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Poulticed; p. pr. & vb. n. Poulticing.] To apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
16c. alteration of Middle English pultes (late 14c.), ultimately from Latin pultes, plural of puls "porridge" (see pulse (n.2)).
Wiktionary
n. A soft, moist mass applied topically to a sore, aching or lesioned part of the body to soothe. A poultice is usually wrapped in cloth and often warmed before being applied. vb. (context transitive English) To treat with a poultice.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A poultice, also called cataplasm, is a soft moist mass, often heated and medicated, that is spread on cloth over the skin to treat an aching, inflamed, or painful part of the body. It can be used on wounds such as cuts.
Poultice may also refer to a porous solid filled with solvent used to remove stains from porous stone such as marble or granite.
The word "poultice" comes from the Latin puls, pultes, meaning "porridge".
Usage examples of "poultice".
Five days had passed since the wizard had run the axolotls through the poultice, and Professor Wurzle was fit as a fiddle, as he liked to say while slapping himself on the chest.
The segments are then to be bruised thoroughly in a mortar, and applied in the mass as a poultice beneath a bandage.
When bruised and applied by way of a poultice to scrofulous swellings and glandular tumours, the Sea Tang has been found very valuable.
Its leaves, when bruised, make a good poultice for inflamed eyes, being outwardly applied to the grieved place.
But every body was subject to storms of such magnitude the doctors were rendered helpless, despite their lancets, their clysters, their poultices, their potions, their magical herbs.
Oribasius was bent over the wound, holding a poultice of dittany, but had stopped his probing, listening to the conversation.
As is usual with fermentation, the temperature begins to rise, and if you thrust your hands into the fermenting beans you find they are as hot and mucilaginous as a poultice.
If inflammatory symptoms supervene, fomentations and poultices should be applied.
Country persons apply these leaves to open sores and wounds, or make a poultice of them, or give fomentations with a hot decoction of the same, or prepare a gargle from the decoction when cold.
The wound was nearly healed, but another application of his germander poultice would not be amiss.
On her return, Susanna had supervised the reduction of the roots to pulp, making sure that Jennet strained the pulp through linen cloth before she used it to make the poultices that would stave off infection.
Calamity concocted a poultice made from boiled Jimsonweed she found near the creek that bordered the meadow.
Donough tried not to flinch as Ferchar lifted the partially dislodged flap of skin with a practiced thumb, bathed it gently with willow-water to free the clotted hair, then eased it into its proper place and affixed an herbal poultice of ribwort and plantain.
Lady Imeyne knelt at the foot of the bed next to her medicine casket, busy with one of her foul-smelling poultices, and there was another smell in the room, sickish and so strong it overpowered the mustard and leek smell of the poultice.
Jacob asked the way to the kitchen, prepared a hot, a very hot poultice, clapped it on and hurried out into the town, returning with a phial of Thebaic tincture.