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stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. [Written also staunch.] Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose. Bacon.

A stanchion.

One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.

A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.

Incapable of being stanched, or stopped.

In a stanch manner.

The quality or state of being stanch.

The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson.

A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch. Totten.

A forked stanchion or post; a crotch. See Crotch.

A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.

A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.…

fball (Bot.), a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds. -- Giant salamander (Zoöl.), a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long. -- Giant squid (Zoöl.), one of several species…

Repellent. [Obs.] "Blood is stanched by astringent and repecussive medicines." Bacon.

The kestrel; -- called also standgale, standgall, stanchel, stand hawk, stannel hawk, steingale, stonegall. [Written also staniel, stannyel, and stanyel.] With what wing the staniel checks at it. Shak.

See Stanch, Stanchly, etc.

To stanch. [Obs.] Harvey.

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound. Shak.

A top railing supported by stanchions and equipped with netting.