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cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds

cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds

Flax.

Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.

Flax.

Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.

The soft down obtained by scraping linen and used for dressing wounds; also, fluff from yarns or fabrics.

Charpie, a soft absorbent material used in surgical dressings; it was formerly made by scraping or raveling old linen cloths, now usually in the form of a thick, loosely woven material, sheet lint or patent lint.

Shredded or picked linen; a dressing for wounds.

Flax: linen scraped into a soft woolly substance to lay on wounds.

Flax; scrapings of linen.

Linen scraped into a soft substance, and used for dressing wounds. See Linen.

Linen scraped into a soft substance, or a soft woollen fabric of linen, used for dressing wounds or sores; the flax-plant.

Carbasus, Linteum.

Absorbent dressing made by picking apart woven linen; also, a specially finished woven fabric for surgical dressing.

Flax, the fiber of Linum usitatissimum.

Scrapings or shreds from linen fabric.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] Flax;— linen raveled or scraped into a soft substance, and used for dressing wounds and sores.