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Flea-bite :: Flea-bite (n.) A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea..

Drainage :: Drainage (n.) The act, process, or means of drawing off the pus or fluids from a wound, abscess, etc..

Tent :: Tent (v. t.) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively..

Recency :: Recency (n.) The state or quality of being recent; newness; new state; late origin; lateness in time; freshness; as, the recency of a transaction, of a wound, etc..

Sling :: Sling (v. t.) A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported..

Bleed :: Bleed (v. i.) To lose sap, gum, or juice; as, a tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded..

Hurter :: Hurter (n.) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like..

Convolute :: Convolute (a.) Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation..

Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like..

Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension..

Stake-driver :: Stake (v. t.) To pierce or wound with a stake.

Sarcocolla :: Sarcocolla (n.) A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers..

Cloy :: Cloy (v. t.) To penetrate or pierce; to wound.

Granulation :: Granulation (n.) One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing..

Stricken :: Stricken (p. p. & a.) Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer..

Parceling :: Parceling (n.) Long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc..

Pyaemia :: Pyaemia (n.) A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion..

Sting :: Sting (v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion..

Syringed :: Syringe (n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc..

Cop :: Cop (n.) A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

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