dossil
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 6
Definition of dossil
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A small roll or plug used to stop a sore, wound, etc.; a pledget.
“This new treaty being settled, and a dossil of lint with a snip of plaister applied to our adventurer's wound, he parted from the brother of his dear Emilia […].”
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noun
-
A small roll or plug used to stop a sore, wound, etc.; a pledget.
“This new treaty being settled, and a dossil of lint with a snip of plaister applied to our adventurer's wound, he parted from the brother of his dear Emilia […].”
- A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English dosel, from Old French dosil (“spigot”), from Late Latin ducīculus, diminutive from Latin dux (“guide”). See duct, duke.
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