Usually means: Medicinal paste applied to skin.
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  1. poultice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. poultice: Merriam-Webster
  3. poultice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. poultice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. poultice: Collins English Dictionary
  6. poultice: Vocabulary.com
  7. Poultice, poultice: Wordnik
  8. poultice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. poultice: Wiktionary
  10. poultice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. poultice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. poultice: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. poultice: Dictionary.com
  14. poultice: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Poultice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Poultice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. poultice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. poultice: Rhymezone
  19. Poultice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. poultice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. poultice: FreeDictionary.org
  22. poultice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. poultice: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Poultice: Health & Beauty Glossary

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  1. poultice: Legal dictionary

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  1. poultice: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. poultice: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Poultice: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
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  8. poultice: Medical dictionary
  9. Poultice: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. poultice: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. poultice: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Poultice: Beauty & Health Glossary

(Note: See poulticed as well.)

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noun:  A soft, moist mass, usually wrapped in cloth and warmed, that is applied topically to a sore, aching or lesioned part of the body to soothe it.
noun:  A porous solid filled with solvent, used to remove stains from porous stone such as marble or granite.
verb:  (transitive) To treat with a poultice.

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