Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of
poultice .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Poultry.
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Examples
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'the leaves of Chickweed boyled in water very soft, adding thereto some hog's grease, the powder of Fenugreeke and Linseed, and a few roots of Marsh Mallows, and stamped to the forme of Cataplasme or pultesse, taketh away the swelling of the legs or any other part ... in a word it comforteth, digesteth, defendeth and suppurateth very notably.'
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