dossil

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noun

A small roll or plug used to stop a sore, wound, etc.; a pledget.

OriginMiddle English dosel ← Old French dosil ← Late Latin ducīculus →
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Meanings

noundossil (plural dossils)

plural dossils

  1. medicineA small roll or plug used to stop a sore, wound, etc.; a pledget.

    This new treaty being settled, and a dossil of lint with a snip of plaister applied to our adventurer's wound, he parted from the brother of his dear Emilia […].

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
  2. mediaA roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.

Origin

  1. Latindux“guide”
  2. Late Latinducīculus
  3. Old Frenchdosil“spigot”
  4. Middle Englishdosel
  5. Englishdossil

From Middle English dosel, from Old French dosil (“spigot”), from Late Latin ducīculus, diminutive from Latin dux (“guide”). See duct, duke.

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APA

dossil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dossil

MLA

“dossil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dossil. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dossil,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dossil.

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