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An instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or offensive matter from a wound.

A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun. [India] Yule.

A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin. A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp. Rambler.

Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound.

To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.

ning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.

a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.

A discharge; an issue. [Obs.] To cleanse the quitture from thy wound. Chapman.

d by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

guratively. A malady that burns and rankles inward. Rowe. This would have left a rankling wound in the hearts of the people. Burke.

A slight wound; a scratch. [Obs.] Hooker.

y something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage. Against his will he can receive no harm. Milton.

w state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc.

ion of 1864; any of the national societies for alleviating the sufferings of the sick and wounded war, also giving aid and relief during great calamities; also, a member or worker of such a society; -- so called from the badge of neutrality; the Geneva cross.

, or a kind of spool, turning on an axis, on which yarn, threads, lines, or the like, are wound; as, a log reel, used by seamen; an angler's reel; a garden reel.

An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during amputation.

To discover and bring in game that has been killed or wounded; as, a dog naturally inclined to retrieve. Walsh.

chiefly employed to retrieve, or to find and recover game birds that have been killed or wounded.

to report officially by a list or statement; as, to return a list of stores, of killed or wounded; to return the result of an election.

which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller.