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To wound with a calk; as when a horse injures a leg or a foot with a calk on one of the other feet.

bars in the sockets. -- To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or cable wound around it.

Not receiving care; uncared for. [R.] Their many wounds and careless hatms. Spemser.

e moving from place to place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child. If the ideas . . . were carried along with us in our minds. Locke.

Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident.

Tending to promote the formation of a cicatrix; good for healing of a wound.

The pellicle which forms over a wound or breach of continuity and completes the process of healing in the latter, and which subsequently contracts and becomes white, forming the scar.

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh. Wiseman.

To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated. What deep wounds ever closed without a scar Byron.

To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.

A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew. You have wound a goodly clue. Shak. This clue once found unravels all the rest. Pope. Serve as clues to guide us into further knowledge. Locke.

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.

A ring, series of rings, or spiral, into which a rope, or other like thing, is wound. The wild grapevines that twisted their coils from trec to tree. W. Irving.

oportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. Collodion process (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensitized collodion is used in preparing the plate for taking a picture. -- Stypt…

A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts.

eans of some tenacious substance; junction; union. Conglutination of parts separated by a wound. Arbuthnot.

To unite by means of applications, as the parts of a broken bone, or the lips of a wound. [R.]