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
“Or perhaps the poultice could wait a short while to be applied, just until we return to Ashton Place.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" 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 limbs may be poulticed above the fetlocks with mustard.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
He said, "I poulticed my shoulders for three weeks, and they began to get soft, so I stopped doing it."
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
To an idle passerby a group of full grown human beings with their heads and often their bodies completely poulticed in black mud would have been an amusing sight.
From Sube Cane by Edward Bellamy Partridge
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
G. got eight bites on one hand, which is serious, and means poulticing.
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch
The poor girl has been in the village all day, fomenting and poulticing old Mrs Barnes, and if it had been any girl but herself, she would have been tired out long before.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various
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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