n. A small ovoid or cylindrical roll or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.
n. A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.
n. A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A spigot in a cask; a plug.
n. A wisp of hay or straw to stop up an aperture.
n. The rose at the end of a water-pipe.
n. In surgery, a pledget or small portion of lint made into a cylindrical or conical form, for purging a wound.
n. A roll of cloth for cleaning the ink from an engraved plate previous to printing.
Word Usage
"And a 1755 edition has an account of early vaccinations, with Hans Sloane writing that is "performed by making a very slight incision in the skin of the arm" and putting into it "a dossil dipped in the ripe matter of a favourable kind of small-pox" to protect against later severe natural infection."