POULTICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poultice mean? 

• POULTICE (noun)
  The noun POULTICE has 1 sense:

1. 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.

  Familiarity information: POULTICE used as a noun is very rare.

• POULTICE (verb)
  The verb POULTICE has 1 sense:

1. dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

  Familiarity information: POULTICE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POULTICE (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.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cataplasm; plaster; poultice

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)

• POULTICE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they poultice    ... he / she / it poultices   
Past simple: poulticed   
Past participle: poulticed   
-ing form: poulticing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

plaster; poultice

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.)

 Context examples 

Treatment with daily applications of green clay poultices healed the infections.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

And the larger sheet, which had enclosed the rest, seemed by its first cramp line, “To poultice chestnut mare”—a farrier's bill!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)