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
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
If the stains look lighter but aren’t gone, repeat the poultice procedure.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022
She suggests making a violet leaf infusion or poultice for soothing an eye irritation or injury.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2021
I wiped the poultice off my foot with a snotty hanky.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
I have poulticed his nose, as she directed.”
From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell
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
Dr. Mylechreest had poulticed her lungs with mustard and linseed, but all to no purpose.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
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
No poulticing is needed when this is well done.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
I found that the doctor had been fomenting its wounded lip with a strong infusion of tobacco, and afterwards poulticing it with the chopped leaves of the same plant.
From With Axe and Rifle by H. Meyer
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