Originally: a solid medicinal or emollient substance spread on a bandage or dressing and applied to the skin, often becoming adhesive at body…

A plaster.

Medicine. A medicinal preparation in the form of a sticky paste or salve, usually applied to the skin on a piece of linen or leather; = plaster, n.…

A medicinal plaster (plaster, n. 1a) or poultice.

A poultice. Obsolete. rare.

A moist, usually heated mass of a substance with a soft, pasty consistency, applied to the skin, usually by means of a bandage or dressing, in…

(See quot. 1753.)

Medicine. A plaster or ointment spread on a cloth. Obsolete.

Medicine. A type of medicated plaster used esp. in the treatment of wounds and ulcers, consisting of rosin, wax, and various other ingredients…

A cylindrical roll, esp. of a medicinal substance or plaster.

A medicated compress.

Medicine. With the. = Gratia Dei, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

A medicinal preparation in the form of a sticky paste or salve, usually applied to the skin on a piece of linen or leather; = plaster, n. 1a. Also in…

An emollient poultice or medication, esp. an ointment.

A piece of linen or other cloth dipped in, or spread with, some ointment or medicament for use as a bandage or plaster.

A medical plaster.

= plaster, n. 1a.

A poultice made with mustard, applied to the chest or other part of the body as a counterirritant. Also in extended use. Also called mustard poultice…

A poultice: formerly also a plaster.

A plaster or poultice containing ointment.

Medicine. A pad or dressing, spread with a medicinal substance, and applied to the skin. Obsolete.

Surgery. A soft mass of linen, lint or other material formed into a pad, which, by the aid of a bandage, can be made to press upon any part; used…

Surgery. A compress. Obsolete. rare.

A poultice or the like.

Medicine. A small, sometimes medicated cushion or pad. Cf. pulvillus, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

Something worn on the forehead. A cloth or bandage containing some medicament; also, the medicament itself. Obsolete.

A plaster or poultice consisting wholly or partly of mustard flour; a mustard plaster.

A small plaister.

A desiccating or detersive plaster composed originally of palm oil, litharge, and sulphate of zinc, now of white wax, emplastrum simplex, and…

A medical plaster. Obsolete.

Medicine. The action of attracting, or the ability to attract, venom, blood, humours, etc.; an instance of this. Also (concrete): †an agent that…

? A bag for applying a poultice. Obsolete.

A medicinal plaster made from saffron, vinegar, and various other ingredients.

(now historical).

= adhesive plaster n. (a) at compounds. Obsolete. rare.

Medicine. A kind of poultice. Obsolete.

= mustard plaster, n.

a healing-plaster chiefly composed of soap.

a dressing saturated with water; (as a mass noun) the application of such dressings.

(a) plaster composed of tar, resin, and yellow wax. Obsolete.

One who or that which compresses: in technical uses. A (surgical or hydropathic) compress.

(See quot. 1858.)

strips of bandage saturated with water; the application of such bandages.

A dressing containing pitch, used as a depilatory. Also: a dressing containing Burgundy pitch, used in the treatment of chest and rheumatic disorders.

a poultice, typically made of linseed meal, applied around or to the front and back of the chest, esp. for the treatment of pneumonia.

= mustard paper n.

paper coated with mustard powder and used as a mustard plaster.

= spongiopiline, n.

a dressing consisting of a thin sheet of gutta-percha backed with mull or muslin, and coated on the inner surface with an adhesive, medicated…

a cloth coated with mustard powder and used as a mustard plaster.

= plaster-mull n.

A proprietary form of kaolin poultice used as a convenient form of treatment for the relief of inflammatory lesions.