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poultice

[pohl-tis] / ˈpoʊl tɪs /


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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

Whatever he’s suffering from, thank goodness the Grand Maester was around to reject the maester intern’s herbal poultice in favor of another leeching.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 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

“I’ll bet those docs would thank you for that. But I’d like to get a poultice on this dog.”

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

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

For to cure one person of a disease does not cure another, nor is one any better, when suffering from ophthalmia or fever, by seeing another anointed or poulticed.

From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto

The child—she was scarcely more than that—had hurt herself severely, and instead of keeping her at home, she sent her to the theatre, "poulticed all over," as Rachel expressed it afterwards.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

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

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

At last, following the direction of a neighbour, he found her poulticing an old lady, for she was a nurse.

From A Mummer's Tale by Charles E. Roche

I do not say anything about medicine, actual poulticing, etc., because a distemper patient, in view of the complications which are always apt to arise in this disease, should be nursed under skilled veterinary direction.

From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams




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