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noun

Bandage n.

A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.

Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. "Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage over her eyes."

verb

Bandage v. t. (past & past part. bandaged; pres. part. bandaging) To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.

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"Bandage" Quotes from Famous Books

... place, where I found that the poor little creature, a girl of about a year old, had fallen down a hatchway and broken her arm. She had lost her mother in England, and was in the care of an elder sister, who hung over her in the greatest distress, while the other women were preparing to bandage the arm. I had had no idea till then how wretchedly these poor creatures were huddled together, without even such comforts as they were used to; but when I found that it was impossible for the sick child to be cared for in the miserable ...

— A Canadian Heroine, Volume 1 - A Novel • Mrs. Harry Coghill

... Early on the second day Morgiana went with veiled face to one Baba Mustafa,[FN298] a tailor well shotten in years whose craft was to make shrouds and cerecloths; and as soon as she saw him open his shop she gave him a gold piece and said, "Do thou bind a bandage over thine eyes and come along with me." Mustafa made as though he would not go, whereat Morgiana placed a second gold coin in his palm and entreated him to accompany her. The tailor presently consented for greed of gain, so tying a kerchief ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... square knot is tied by holding an end of a bandage or cord in each hand, and then passing the end in the right hand over the one in the left and tying; the end now in the left hand is passed over the one in ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... table studying maps. He is a man in the early thirties, prematurely worn and old. His face is burned a deep brick color and is sharpened by fatigue and loss of blood. His hair is sparse, dry and turning gray. Around the upper part of his head is a bandage covered largely by a black skull-cap. Of over average height the man is spare and muscular. The eye is keen and penetrating: his voice abrupt and authoritative. An occasional flash of humor brings an old-time twinkle to the one and heartiness ...

— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

... great demand after the first wounded hero made his appearance. His wound was the envy of thousands of unfortunates who had not so much as a scratch to boast, and who felt "small" and of little consequence before the man with a bloody bandage. Many became despondent and groaned as they thought that perchance after all they were doomed to go home safe and sound, and hear, for all time, the praises of the fellow who had lost his arm by a cannon shot, or had his face ripped by a sabre, or his head smashed ...

— Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 • Carlton McCarthy

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