poultice
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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
Then the whole country is solemnly soaked and poulticed with the gray, streaming clouds and fogs, night and day, with marvelous constancy.
From Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by Muir, John
The foot must now be poulticed for one or two days and afterwards dressed with a compress of oakum saturated with carbolic-acid solution or other antiseptic dressing.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
They bathed Molly, rubbed her with lotions, poulticed her with mustard, gave her a hot drink, and all the time Miss Carew's heart ached at the impossibility of helping her in the very least.
From Great Possessions by Ward, Wilfrid, Mrs.
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Romeo and Juliet
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