Crossword clues for stanch
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stanch \Stanch\, v. t. To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
His gathered sticks to stanch the wall
Of the snow tower when snow should fall.
--Emerson.
Stanch \Stanch\ (st[.a]nch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stanched (st[.a]ncht); p. pr. & vb. n. Stanching.] [OF. estanchier, F. ['e]tancher to stop a liquid from flowing; akin to Pr., Sp., & Pg. estancar, It. stancare to weary, LL. stancare, stagnare, to stanch, fr. L. stagnare to be or make stagnant. See Stagnate.]
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To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. [Written also staunch.]
Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose.
--Bacon. To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst. [Obs.]
Stanch \Stanch\, v. i. To cease, as the flowing of blood.
Immediately her issue of blood stanched.
--Luke viii.
44.
Stanch \Stanch\, n.
That which stanches or checks. [Obs.]
A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
--Knight.
Stanch \Stanch\, a. [Compar. Stancher (-[~e]r); superl. Stanchest.] [From Stanch, v. t., and hence literally signifying, stopped or stayed; cf. Sp. estanco stopped, tight, not leaky, as a ship. See Stanch, v. t.] [Written also staunch.]
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Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.
One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty.
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Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.
--V. Knox.In politics I hear you 're stanch.
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Close; secret; private. [Obs.]
This is to be kept stanch.
--Locke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to stop the flow of" (especially of blood), early 14c., from Old French estanchier "cause to cease flowing (of blood), stop, hinder; extinguish (of fire); tire, exhaust, drain" (Modern French étancher), from Vulgar Latin *stancare, perhaps contracted from *stagnicare, from Latin stagnum "pond, pool" (see stagnate). But Barnhart says it probably is from Latin stantio, present participle of stare "to stand."
Wiktionary
1 Strong and tight; sound; firm. 2 Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steadfast. 3 Close; secret; private. n. 1 That which stanches or checks. 2 A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release. v
1 (context transitive English) To stop the flow of. 2 (context intransitive English) To cease, as the flowing of blood. 3 (context transitive English) To prop; to make stanch, or strong. 4 To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
WordNet
Usage examples of "stanch".
The Tonton Macoute stared at Taureau for a moment with unbelieving eyes, and then, blood fountaining from his shoulder, he fell weeping to the floor, trying unsuccessfully to stanch the bleeding with his remaining hand.
Hanna was a stanch friend of the gold standard, but he was too clever to alienate the sympathies of the Republican silverites by supporting the nomination of a man known to be an uncompromising advocate of gold.
Through all of his hilarious experiences at Fardale, Frank had not a stancher adherent.
Lichen was also good for stanching wounds, but they had plenty of that.
Finally, with a last wrench of her will, she clenched her hands together, entwining her fingers, stanching the flow.
Buck wrestled him into the shelter and tried stanching the blood flow again, but Tsion reached for him with weak, fluttery hands.
The thick rope cut into her stomach, stanching her ability to breathe.
He held his arm beneath the surface in hopes of stanching the bleeding and hiding the smell from the dogs.
It speaks volumes for the stanch fidelity of the country people to the cause which MacKenzie represented, that during these wanderings he was unbetrayed, spite of the 1000 pounds reward.
They arrive here, and breed early in the spring--sometimes, indeed, before the snow is off the hills--get their young off in June, and with their young are most unmercifully, most unsportsmanly, thinned off, when they can hardly fly--such is the error, as I think it, of the law--but I could not convince my stanch friends, Philo, and J.
Rosenheimer, a pudding-faced, but stanch young Briton of the old Pomeranian strain.
I said to him all that I could, and all that it was my duty to say in the way of compliment, while he was stanching the blood with his handkerchief, and on looking at the point of my sword I was delighted to find that the wound was of the slightest.
It may seem a paradox to class democracy with the barbaric constitutions, and yet as it is defended by many stanch democrats, especially European democrats and revolutionists, and by French and Germans settled in our own country, it is essentially barbaric and anti-republican.
Two had limbs blown off, but corpsmen reached them in time to stanch the bleeding and stick them in stasis bags to stabilize them until they reached the hospital.
Hastily, he tore the breechcloth from a Fighter corpse and wrapped it around the arm to stanch the flow of life fluid.