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poultice

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1. poultice - Noun

2. poultice - Verb

Meaning

A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm.

To apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice.

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A feather of a hawk was bound Bound around my neck A poultice made of fig The eager little vultures pecked. Joanna Newsom

Patience is poultice for all wounds. Irish Proverb

An additional problem was the Boers' use of traditional medicines like a cow-dung poultice for skin diseases and crushed insects for convulsions.sfn Coupled with a shortage of modern medical facilities, many of the internees died. Source: Internet

Her face, which was red and spotted, was rendered something frightful by her negligent dress, and the foot affected was tied up with a poultice and some nasty bandages. Source: Internet

Her choices: A disgusting, smelly poultice concocted from "yarbs" by an authentic Ozarks granny woman or a no-strings affair with the community's most eligible man. Source: Internet

The vulva is closed with surgical thread, agave or acacia thorns, or covered with a poultice such as raw egg, herbs and sugar. Source: Internet

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