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Chiefly Medicine. The wrapping of all or part of the body in a wet or dry, or hot or cold, sheet, blanket, etc. (cf. pack, v.1 8b); the state of…
The action of pack, v.1 The practice of wrapping (a person) in a wet sheet as a hydropathic treatment; the application of a wet pack. Now historical.