dossil

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French dosil (“spigot”), from Late Latin ducīculus, diminutive from Latin dux (“guide”). See duct, duke.

Noun

dossil (plural dossils)

1. (surgery) A small roll or plug used to stop a sore, wound, etc.; a pledget.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     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 […] .

2. (printing) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.

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