: a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
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Noun
placed a poultice over the infected cut
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Noun
Step 5: Scrub Bowl and Flush Use a toilet brush to scrub the bowl, which will help to scour away any residual staining that has been loosened by the vinegar poultice.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2024
Swallows collect another toxic plant, celandine, to make a poultice for their chicks’ eyes.
—Adrienne Mayor, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
Verb
Actually, Sister, in my experience poulticing isn’t much help in these chest cases.
—Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
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“Poultice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poultice. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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poultice
1 of 2 noun
poul·tice
ˈpōl-təs 
: a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions to supply moist warmth, relieve pain, or act as a counterirritant or antiseptic
called also cataplasm
poultice
2 of 2 transitive verb
poulticed; poulticing
: to apply a poultice to
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