Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
styptic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Med.) See
styptic .
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- adjective Archaic form of
styptic . - noun Archaic form of
styptic .
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Examples
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Muralto commends the use thereof to gouty persons; Bacon likewise extols it as a stiptic, and Junkenius considers it of efficacy to resolve coagulated blood.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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Best left for use on a leisurely Sat/Sun morning and not a hectic workday morning rush .. there's not enough stiptic or shreds of bumwad that will staunch the bleeding .. death by a thousand cuts. .but leaves the chin as smooth as silk ..
Army Rumour Service 2009
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