Word Meanings - STYPTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Styptic; astringent.

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• STYPTICAL
  Styptic; astringent.
• STYPTIC
  Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. Styptic weed , an American leguminous herb closely related to the wild senna.
• ASTRINGENTLY
  In an astringent manner.
• ASTRINGENT
  1. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit. 2. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
• STYPTICITY
  The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.
• SUBASTRINGENT
  Somewhat astringent.