Cauterant
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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Word Usage
"Pepys relates how he met a seaman returning from fighting the Dutch with his eye-socket "stopped with oakum," and as late at least as the Battle of Trafalgar it was customary, in amputations, to treat the bleeding stump with boiling pitch as a cauterant."
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