stypticadj.n.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 98 Diete him with colde metis & stiptik.

c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 81 Al stiptik þingz bene repressiue of humours.

c1440 Pallad. on Husb. xi. 281 The stiptyk whyte [wine] a stomak that is laxe Wole helpe.

1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy v, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 74 And so is Sowerish tast called Sapor Pontick, And lesse Sower allso called Sapor Stiptick.

1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) ii. vii. 18 b Meates stiptike or rough on the tonge, byndeth and comforteth appetite.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxviii. 745 The gal [of the oak] is also very binding and stiptique.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. F What's that? A Lullianist? a Ripley?.. Know you the sapor pontick? sapor stipstick?

1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 188 Take..some stypticke thing after meale..that may inhibit the ascending of vapors, by closing vp the mouth of the stomack.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xii. 338 There is a sowre, stipticke salt diffused through the earth, which passing a concoction in plants, becommeth milder and more agreeable unto the sense. View more context for this quotation

1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 44 Austere, astringent, vegetable Substances..as, Several sorts of Plumbs,..distinguishable by their rough styptick Taste... Pomegranates, which contain a Juice styptick, and extremely cooling.

1804 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 12 30 Dogberry tree... The berries of this tree have a styptic quality, and are bitter to the taste.

1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 88 An orange-brown solution, with a strong styptic taste.

c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 27 Puluer of alum, zucarin combust, ‘bole armenic’, [etc.]..ar..of þe same vertu in regeneracion of flesch an cicatrizacione and þat þai bene al stiptik.

1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iii. f. 100^v/2 Ye shal minister this..which is stiptike, & consoundeth or ioyneth together y^e woundes in the guttes.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xiii. 97 These Wounds..ought to be healed with stiptick Plaisters.

1673 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 8 6115 The Royal Styptique liquor was used in the last engagement against the Dutch by the Chirurgions.

1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xi. 983 A bitter Root he bruis'd; The Wound he wash'd, the Styptick Juice infus'd.

1745 R. James Medicinal Dict. III. at Styptica I found that many little Trials were made there, also, with a Styptic Ball, mixed with French Brandy.

1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women (ed. 3) 107 Both these cases readily yielded to the recumbent posture, and the application of cold and styptic compresses.

1880 W. MacCormac Antiseptic Surg. 167 Pure spirit is a good application; it is slightly styptic and quite antiseptic.

1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 799/2 Styptic Pencils. Used when shaving. Will instantly stop bleeding.

1936 G. Greene Gun for Sale vii. 211 Plying his styptic pencil, sticking the cotton-wool on the longer wounds.

1961 I. Fleming Thunderball i. 9 Bond dabbed with the blood~stained styptic pencil at the cut on his chin.

1978 Observer 26 Mar. 29/7 He had dropped his styptic pencil down the washbasin.

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Hvi They who thinke it suche sweet meate here, shall find the sawce sowre and stiptick enough in Hell.

1637 T. Heywood Dial. ii, in Wks. (1874) VI. 118 By her the Boy would be so much insenc'd, To aime a shaft in Stiptick poison dipt.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 56 Not medling with that restraining and styptick surgery which the law uses,..against the eruptions, and outermost effects thereof [sc. of malice].

1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) iii. xcviii. 33 That stiptic Word full in the Priest's face flew, And fastned mystic chains upon his Tongue.

1859 W. Darlington & G. Thurber Amer. Weeds & Useful Plants 110 Cassia occidentalis... Styptic Weed.

1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 788/1 Styptic- or velvet-bur, Priva echinata.

a1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 226 Þou schalt avoide þe matere, & þou schalt comforte þe place [the mouth of the stomach] with stiptikis.

1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 251 This inconvenience is remedied..by shutting the Mouth of the Stomach, strongly, with Stipticks.

1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) ii. 17 Gums and Pomatums shall his Flight restrain,..Or Alom-Stypticks with contracting Power Shrink his thin Essence like a rivell'd Flower.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters i. 13 That austere, rough styptic, called alum.

c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 74 Afterward [after phlebotomy] be þer done suffumigacion or fomentacion of gall, or of..wormode, horsmynt, and sich oþer stiptikez.

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. ix. 399 There was an effusion of bloud..: but having Dossils ready dipt in the Royal Stiptick, we applied them.

1755 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 322 Her nose..has already bled 15 or 16 ounces: it is at present stopped by Eaton's Stiptic.

1825 W. Scott Talisman i, in Tales Crusaders IV. 7 The physician..withdrew from the wounded shoulder the fragment of the weapon, and stopped with styptics and bandages the effusion of blood which followed.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 180/2 Those astringents are alone entitled to be called styptics which can be applied directly to the bleeding orifice; and of these some act chemically, others vitally, and others merely mechanically.

1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. x. 410 Astringents or styptics are..valuable agents in the arrest of bleeding... Cold is a powerful styptic.

1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life (ed. 3) VI. 119 Hope, celestial Comforter! that only Styptic for a bleeding heart.

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xii. 120 Again the flow of words is checked by the styptic [sc. a kiss] previously applied.

1858 M. Oliphant Laird of Norlaw III. 92 Vulgar, needful business, the very elements of daily necessity—these are the best styptics for thrusts in the heart.

1879 E. Dowden Southey ii. 28 He had been squandering his emotions; he had been indulging in a luxury and waste of passion. Here was a tonic and a styptic.