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▪ I. bandage, n.|ˈbændɪdʒ|
[a. F. bandage, f. bande band n.2: see -age. Orig. a term of surgery.]
1. Surg. A strip or band of woven material used to bind up a wound, sore, or fractured limb.
1599A. M. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physic 185/2 On the syde of the Rupture, ther must be sowede a little bandage. 1725Pope Odyss. xix. 535 With bandage firm Ulysses' knee they bound. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. xxviii, We reduced the fracture, dressed the wound, applied the eighteen-tailed bandage. 1850Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xvii, There, there—let me fix this bandage.
b. abstr. = bandaging vbl. n. 1.
1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5901/3 Lectures in Osteology, Bandage, etc.
2. A strip of any flexible material used for binding or covering up, esp. for blindfolding the eyes.
1715Garth Claremont (R.) Justice [shall] need no bandage for her eyes. 1799G. Smith Laborat. I. 15 Glue them together with a bandage of paper. 1813Shelley Q. Mab. 190 Like bandages of straw Beneath a wakened giant's strength.
fig.1750Shenstone Ode Indol. 12 Ah! gentle Sloth! indulgent spread The same soft bandage o'er my mind. 1862Maurice Mor. & Met. Phil. IV. v. §66 Tie the controversy with bandages of argument.
3. A band or strip of material used to bind together and strengthen any structure. arch.
1766Entick London IV. 205 A channel cut into the bandage of Portland-stone. 1842Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss., Bandages, the rings or chains of iron inserted in the corners of a stone wall..which act as a tie on the walls to keep them together.
▪ II. bandage, v.|ˈbændɪdʒ|
[f. prec. n.]
To tie or bind up with a bandage. lit. and fig.
1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. II. xi. (Jod.) Their artificial deformities of..bandaging the feet. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. i, So bandaged, and hampered, and hemmed in..with thousand requisitions. 1873æ. Munro Nursing iv. 159 To bandage a part well. |
