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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

puls

, pl.

pultes

, a thick pap; akin to Gr.

πόλτος

. Cf.

seeds.]

A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm.

“Poultice relaxeth the pores.”

Bacon.

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Poulticed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Poulticing

To apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice.

Noun.

[L. puls, pultis.] A cataplasm; a soft composition of meal, bran, or the like substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, &c.

Verb.

To apply a cataplasm to.