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POULTICE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.

Synonyms:

cataplasm; plaster; poultice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("poultice" is a kind of...):

dressing; medical dressing (a cloth covering for a wound or sore)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poultice"):

mustard plaster; sinapism (a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient)

Derivation:

poultice (dress by covering with a therapeutic substance)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

Synonyms:

plaster; poultice

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "poultice" is one way to...):

dress (apply a bandage or medication to)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Did he poultice his foot?

Derivation:

poultice (a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.)

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