Poultice is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POULTICE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to apply a hot, healing substance
• apply a poultice to
• To apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice.
• dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
• apply poultice to
NOUN:
• a soft, moist mass of material, typically consisting of bran, flour, herbs, etc., applied to the body to relieve soreness and inflammation and kept in place with a cloth.
• moist dressing, often heated, applied to inflamed skin
• A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm.
• a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to apply a healing substance to

Words related to POULTICE

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Words that contain POULTICE

poulticed14 poultices13

How to use POULTICE in a sentence

• When the difficulty of breathing becomes oppressive, as it generally does towards night, a hot bran poultice, laid on the chest, will be always found highly beneficial.
• Do not let any lumps remain in the basin, but stir the poultice well, and do not be sparing of your trouble.
• If the bruise be very severe, and in the neighbourhood of a joint, it will be well to apply ten or a dozen leeches over the whole bruised part, and afterwards a poultice.
• If the burn is on the trunk of the body, it is better to use a warm linseed-meal poultice.
• They will then, in all probability, heal up from the bottom, and any matter which may form will find its own way out into the poultice.
• It would appear obvious that you must go there too, and flock round her like a poultice.
• The poor man was cut up so badly all over that the doctor made a bran poultice and wrapped his entire body in it.
• He instructed her to put a poultice of red onions on the wound over night, and in the morning the seeds would come out.
• The advantage of the ordinary sacking or canvas is that it may be cast aside after the application of each poultice.
• A common illustration of this is to be found in the effects of the ordinary poultice.
• In spite of what is sometimes urged to the contrary, a hot poultice is, perhaps, the best means of bringing this about.
• One of our men was bitten by a snake, but a poultice of bark and gunpowder was sufficient to cure the wound.
• After remaining some days, they disappeared without any assistance, except a poultice of the bark of the elm, or of Indian meal.
• An immense white cravat like a poultice pushed his high standing collar up to the ears.
• The segments are then to be bruised thoroughly in a mortar, and applied in the mass as a poultice beneath a bandage.
• The green herb bruised may be applied as a poultice.
• The famous John Hunter was accustomed to employ a poultice of sea-water and oatmeal.
• Its leaves, when bruised, make a good poultice for inflamed eyes, being outwardly applied to the grieved place.
• The root may be employed both externally as a poultice, and inwardly as a decoction, when an astringent is needed.
• The bulb of the plant has medicinal properties and is used by the natives as a poultice.
• The cook washed the wound thoroughly and applied a poultice of meal, which afforded almost instant relief.
• The worm smells the crushed leaves, and straightway enters the poultice which is then burned.
• She came into my room one night when I had the tooth-ache, and brought a spice poultice and a hot-water bag.

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