Definition of wound

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Wound (n.) Fig.: An injury, hurt, damage, detriment, or the like, to feeling, faculty, reputation, etc..

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Treat :: Treat (v. t.) To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient..
Dossil :: Dossil (n.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent..
Stab :: Stab (n.) A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin..
Puncture :: Puncture (n.) A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin..
Scab :: Scab (v. i.) To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over..
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound..
Digestive :: Digestive (n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration..
Punctured :: Punctured (a.) Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound..
Sting :: Sting (v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it..
Heal :: Heal (v. i.) To grow sound; to return to a sound state; as, the limb heals, or the wound heals; -- sometimes with up or over; as, it will heal up, or over..
Worm :: Worm (n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still..
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..
Mortifying :: Mortifying (a.) Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh..
Wound :: Wound (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like..
Ambulance :: Ambulance (n.) An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital..
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored..
Festoon :: Festoon (n.) A carved ornament consisting of flowers, and leaves, intermixed or twisted together, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium..
Leech :: Leech (v. t.) To treat as a surgeon; to doctor; as, to leech wounds..
Wound :: Wound (n.) To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like..
Moulinet :: Moulinet (n.) The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like..
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