poultice

I was a middle-class kid from New Jersey, but like a poultice, this ancient, colonized country drew out an answering difference from my bones.

From Salon ● May 27, 2024

Dampen the stone, apply the poultice a half-inch thick, then cover it with plastic and tape down the edges.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

In that case, Forguson recommends applying a broad-spectrum poultice.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022

Benrejdal later returned and applied a make-shift poultice of takeaway leftovers to the arm.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2017

Miss Mortimer could not stop marveling at their navigational skills—“Who knew the sky even had a scent?” she exclaimed—but Penelope was still brooding about the poultice.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

The sting was poulticed later by inviting the defendant to attend Texas City's fair next week.

From Time Magazine Archive

With great technical brilliance, they poulticed inflamed crises again & again with the salve of compromise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why, down along afore the Lads’ Hope went ashore on the Barnyard Islands, I slep’ along o’ Jim Tool an’ poulticed Archibald Shaft’s boils!

From Every Man for Himself by Norman Duncan

It was a whale of a boil," said George, "but we poulticed him, me and Dave did—and now the swelling's nearly gone.

From His Family by Ernest Poole

The action is usually sufficient in three days, and the parts are then poulticed until the slough comes away, after which a simple dressing is employed.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

I don’t possess the patience for 10 days of poulticing the patio, so I turned to Iron Out, a plant-safe liquid containing oxalic acid.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

If the New Deal party could be cured of its sickness through adroit poulticing, Jimmy Byrnes was the ideal physician.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then she opened the door a few inches, and said: "The Herr Doctor can't go out any more to-night; he has gone to bed, and is poulticing his foot."

From The Nameless Castle by Mór Jókai

The much poulticing of boils has done an untold amount of mischief.

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler

You should have cut 'em off a bit—then you wouldn't look as though you were poulticing your shins.

From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler