poultice

English

Etymology

From Middle English pultes, from Latin pultes, plural of puls. The phonological development from Middle English is regular; compare poultry.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊltɪs/
Audio (RP) (file)

Noun

poultice (plural poultices)

A soft, moist mass, usually wrapped in cloth and warmed, that is applied topically to a sore, aching or lesioned part of the body to soothe it.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
  The poultice relaxeth the pores.
A porous solid filled with solvent, used to remove stains from porous stone such as marble or granite.

Synonyms

cataplasm

Translations

soft, moist mass applied topically to a part of the body

Bulgarian: компрес (bg) m (kompres), лапа (bg) f (lapa)
Catalan: cataplasma (ca) m
Danish: ^{(please verify)} grødomslag c
Dutch: papomslag n, cataplasma n
Faroese: ^{(please verify)} greytarbak n
Finnish: haude (fi)
French: cataplasme (fr) m, emplâtre (fr) m
Galician: emplasto m, cataplasma f, papuxas f pl
German: Kataplasma n, Wickel (de) m, Umschlag (de) m, Packung (de) f
Greek: κατάπλασμα (el) n (katáplasma)
Ancient: κατάπλασμα n (katáplasma)
Irish: ceirín m
Italian: cataplasma m
Japanese: 罨法 (anpō)
Latin: fōmentum n
Maori: whakapiripiri, tākai
Norman: poussot m (Jersey), vithicatouaithe m (Jersey)
Norwegian: grøtomslag n
Plautdietsch: Pleista n
Portuguese: emplastro (pt), emplasto (pt), cataplasma (pt) m or f
Russian: припа́рка (ru) f (pripárka)
Spanish: cataplasma (es) f
Swedish: grötomslag (sv) n, foment, omslag (sv) n
Tocharian B: tsatsāpar

Verb

poultice (third-person singular simple present poultices, present participle poulticing, simple past and past participle poulticed)

(transitive) To treat with a poultice.

Anagrams

epulotic