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A kind of bandage for the head.

A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

vable, n. Blackstone. Immovable apparatus (Med.), an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable feasts (Eccl.), feasts which occur on a certain day of the year and do not depend on the date of Easter; as, Christmas, the Epiphany, etc.

ensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage.

Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy. Ray.

Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington.

To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.

Anything that binds; a band or bandage.

Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped.

Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc.

e term is loosely applied to any plaster stone or species of gypsum. -- Plaster of Paris bandage (Surg.), a bandage saturated with a paste of plaster of Paris, which on drying forms a perfectly fitting splint. -- Plaster stone, any species of gypsum. See Gypsum.

A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.

To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to inwrap; -- often with up; as, to roll up a parcel.

A bandage; a fillet; properly, a long and broad bandage used in surgery.

A bandage passing over the shoulder to support it, or to retain another bandage in place.

To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage. Wycklif (Acts xxvii. 40)

A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.

A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.