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From Middle English pultes, from Latin pultes, plural of puls. The phonological development from Middle English is regular; compare poultry.

• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊltɪs/

poultice (plural poultices)

1. 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.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
     The poultice relaxeth the pores.
   • 1876, Eliza Bisbee Duffey, Our Behaviour: A Manual of Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society, Philadelphia:
     Sties in the eye are irritating and disfiguring. Foment with warm water; at night apply a bread-and-milk poultice.
2. A porous solid filled with solvent, used to remove stains from porous stone such as marble or granite.

• cataplasm

• bread poultice

• poulticelike

• poultice pavement

• poulticewise

soft, moist mass applied topically to a part of the body

• Albanian: llapa (sq) f, jaki (sq) f
• Arabic: لَبْخَة f (labḵa)
  Tunisian Arabic: كاتاپلازما f (kataplāzma)
• Bulgarian: компрес (bg) m (kompres), лапа (bg) f (lapa)
• Catalan: cataplasma (ca) m
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 泥敷劑 / 泥敷剂 (nífūjì)
• Danish: omslag n, grødomslag n (porridge-poultice)
• Dutch: papomslag n, cataplasma n
• Faroese: (please verify) greytarbak n
• Finnish: haude (fi)
• French: cataplasme (fr) m, emplâtre (fr) m
• Galician: emplasto m, cataplasma f, papuxas f pl
• German: Kataplasma n, Wickel (de) m, Umschlag (de) m, Packung (de) f
• Greek: κατάπλασμα (el) n (katáplasma)
  Ancient Greek: κατάπλασμα n (katáplasma)
• Irish: ceirín m
• Italian: cataplasma (it) m
• Japanese: 罨法 (ja) (anpō)
• Latin: fōmentum n
• Māori: whakapiripiri, tākai
• Norman: poussot m (Jersey), vithicatouaithe m (Jersey)
• Norwegian: grøtomslag n
• Plautdietsch: Pleista n
• Polish: kataplazm (pl) m
• Portuguese: emplastro (pt), emplasto (pt), cataplasma (pt) m or f
• Russian: припа́рка (ru) f (pripárka)
• Spanish: cataplasma (es) f, emplasto (es) m, émbroca f, embrocación f, emplaste (es) f, bizma (es) f (uncommon), pegote (es) m, pegatoste m (uncommon)
• Swedish: grötomslag (sv) n, foment (sv), omslag (sv) n
• Tocharian B: tsatsāpar
• Turkish: lapa (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: لاپه (lapa)

poultice (third-person singular simple present poultices, present participle poulticing, simple past and past participle poulticed)

1. (transitive) To treat with a poultice.

• epulotic