- 1泥敷劑。日常多說熱敷、敷藥；不是藥局買的貼布「膏藥」。
A poultice is a soft, wet dressing you put on the skin to ease pain or swelling. The old kind was a warm mush — bread, milk, herbs, clay, or grain — spread on a cloth and left on the sore place. The wet, often warm, sitting-there is the point: people hope the swelling calms down. You can also use it as a verb: to poultice a wound or a sprain. You will meet it in older stories, farm talk, and talk about traditional home medicine. In a hospital today a doctor is more likely to speak of a cold pack or a dressing. Though actually it is cousin to today's heat pack, it is not the sticky plaster patch from the chemist, and it is not a dry . At home in the past, someone might poultice a boil, or a horse's leg.
組成From Middle English pultes, from Latin pultes, plural of puls, a thick porridge. The dressing was, quite literally, a kind of mush. The sound change from the Middle English word is the regular one.
同家族的字
- pulsepulse meaning beans and lentils comes from the same Latin puls, a thick porridge — not the heartbeat pulse
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
poulticenoun/ˈpoʊltɪs/
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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.
- The poultice relaxeth the pores.
- Sties in the eye are irritating and disfiguring. Foment with warm water; at night apply a bread-and-milk poultice.
- 2
A porous solid filled with solvent, used to remove stains from porous stone such as marble or granite.
poulticeverb/ˈpoʊltɪs/
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To treat with a poultice.
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