poultice
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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
She suggests making a violet leaf infusion or poultice for soothing an eye irritation or injury.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2021
We could also apply a poultice of whatever is around.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2020
Benrejdal later returned and applied a make-shift poultice of takeaway leftovers to the arm.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2017
“Why, yes! The poultice makes everyone’s hair the same drab dark brown.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
With great technical brilliance, they poulticed inflamed crises again & again with the salve of compromise.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sting was poulticed later by inviting the defendant to attend Texas City's fair next week.
From Time Magazine Archive
The nurse was fetched; the doctor was sent for; her hand was poulticed, and long before her usual time she was put to bed.
From The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The foot is now to be poulticed for a day or two, or until the lameness and suppuration have ceased.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Then her mother, the biggest brother, and Eagle Eye poulticed the throbbing chest, put compresses on the silky neck, and poured one hot drink after another down the reluctant throat of the blue mare.
From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Eleanor Gates
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
A teaspoonful of tincture of Guaiacum may be given before each poulticing, which may be done twice a day for an hour.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
Where the trouble has lasted for years, it may be slow to heal, and the poulticing may be done only once a week.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
The best place to wear a chest-protector is on the soles of the feet, and poulticing the chest for pneumonia is about as effective as shampooing the scalp for brain-fag.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
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