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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Dossilnoun
A pledget; a nodule or lump of lint, to be laid on a sore.
Etymology: corrupted from dorsel, something laid upon the part.
Her complaints put me upon dressing with such medicaments as basilicon, with præcipitate, upon a dossil. Richard Wiseman.
Webster Dictionary
Dossilnoun
a small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent
Dossilnoun
a roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines
Etymology: [OE. dosil faucet of a barrel, OF. dosil, duisil, spigot, LL. diciculus, ducillus, fr. L. ducere to lead, draw. See Duct, Duke.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Dossil
dos′il, n. a plug, spigot: a cloth roll for wiping ink from an engraved plate in printing: (surg.) a pledget of lint for cleaning out a wound. [O. Fr. dosil—Late L. ducillus, a spigot.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dossil in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dossil in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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