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poultice

2 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) poultice (noun)
  2. 2) poultice (verb)

1poul·tice

noun \ˈpōl-təs\

Definition of POULTICE

: a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
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Examples of POULTICE

  1. <placed a poultice over the infected cut>

Origin of POULTICE

Middle English pultes, from Medieval Latin, literally, pap, from Latin, plural of pult-, puls porridge
First Known Use: 15th century

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