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verb

Stanch v. t. (past & past part. stanched; pres. part. stanching)

To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. (Written also staunch) "Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the bleeding of the nose."

To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst. (Obs.)

Stanch v. t. To prop; to make stanch, or strong. "His gathered sticks to stanch the wall Of the snow tower when snow should fall."

Stanch v. i. To cease, as the flowing of blood. "Immediately her issue of blood stanched."

noun

Stanch n.

That which stanches or checks. (Obs.)

A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.

adjective

Stanch adj. (compar. stancher; superl. stanchest) (Written also staunch)

Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship. "One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty."

Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent. "In politics I hear you 're stanch."

Close; secret; private. (Obs.) "This is to be kept stanch."

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"Stanch" Quotes from Famous Books

... a little sense of relief at Richard Percival seated beside him. Dick was the one stanch thing out of his past; Dick he had known and loved at college; Dick was even now showing himself a friend; and all these other folk were but the ghosts of things to come. Then he laughed lightly at himself for his own fantasy, and returned to the ...

— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter

... Duc de Mayenne entered Paris, and declared open war on Henri III., who, after some hesitation, threw himself into the hands of his cousin Henri of Navarre in the spring of 1589. The old Politique party now rallied to the King; the Huguenots were stanch for their old leader; things looked less dark for them since the destruction of the Spanish Armada in the previous summer. The Swiss, aroused by the threats of the Duke of Savoy at Geneva, joined the Germans, who once more entered northeastern ...

— Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete • Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre

... problems, viz., Why 'twas formerly said, Neither eat nor sow any mint in time of war. The reason is, that blows are given then without any distinction of parts or persons, and if a man that's wounded has that day handled or eaten any mint, 'tis impossible, or at least very hard, to stanch ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... report was soon made. Under ordinary circumstances he would have been ordered to report back to the Uncas, but that stanch little gunboat was then miles beyond the western horizon. Moreover, the admiral had other ...

— A Prisoner of Morro - In the Hands of the Enemy • Upton Sinclair

... the trolling-line. Sometime I shall write an article on the humors of using it—on the soft and sibilant hiss with which it goes out over the stern; on the rasping with which it grates on the edge of the boat as it holds on, stanch and true, to water-weeds and floating branches; on the low moan with which it buries itself under a rock and dies; on the inextricable confusion into which it twists and knots itself when, hand over hand, it ...

— Tenting To-night - A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the - Cascade Mountains • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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