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Definition of lint:

  • (noun) fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers
  • (noun) cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side;

Sentence Examples:

When dissolved in oil of turpentine, a few drops placed in a hollow tooth and covered with jeweler's wool, or scraped lint, give almost instant relief to toothache.

She had spent half an hour fussing over it with the iron, then spent another half an hour getting every speck of lint off her silk skirt.

It was a strange experience, as far as I was concerned, and sometimes seemed a little unreal as, with a bed on my head, I staggered across dark courtyards, or with my arms full of lint and dressings.

In nursing the sick and wounded, knitting socks, scraping lint, and making jellies the bravest and best may weary if the thoughts mount not in faith to something beyond and above it all.

To avoid lint dressings, I hunted pieces of soft, table linen, gave to patients pieces to suit, and as the supply was short they would get nurses and surgeons to leave their pieces of linen, after dressing their wounds until I should take charge, and have them cleansed for next time.

As soon as the corner of the nail can be raised up out of the flesh, it should be kept from again entering, by putting a tuft of fine lint under it.

Moreover, a boy followed at his heels with a basket, where phials, lint, and surgical tools rather courted than shunned observation.

In less than no time, she made a little lint pad, soaked it in the pungent turpentine, applied it to the unsightly swelling, and bound it firmly to the young man's head with a snowy band.

The heat, the whir of the machines, the heaviness of the atmosphere, and the lint are at first overpowering to a visitor.

Over the wound is placed a bit of linen moistened with egg-albumen, then a dressing of lint, and the whole is maintained in place by a suitable bandage.

Though there is no hard-and-fast rule as to the order of precedence, it is well to wash the woolens first, after shaking them free from lint and dust.

A slight figure was moving silently about the room, now at the fireplace, again at a table where some lint, bandages, and phials had been left.

She had not expressed herself in any way, but I wondered if she had observed how scrupulously neat everything was, that there was no lint on the floors and what bully things we had to eat.

You know their province is to console, and even pet the vanquished; they make up lint for the wounded as readily as they weave laurels for the conquerors.

The end of the wound was to remain open in order that lint might be placed therein in order to draw off any objectionable material.

Dress with soft, clean cotton rag or lint as before, keeping wet with the alcohol lotion (one part of alcohol to eight of water) if there be much pain, or throbbing.

There I've lint and real bandages that I use for the men when they hurt themselves, and I'll sponge your hand with disinfectant.

The Major washed the wound first with fresh water and then closed the orifice; after this he put on a thick pad of lint, and then folds of scraped linen held firmly in place with a bandage.

Percival slouched off after his knife, and the frieze of small boys scattered except a lint-haired Cameron who was nursing a stray cat busily, cross-legged against the green boarding.

Curiously enough, a bit of a shell or a bullet, or something, has taken the lobe off; and as it would not stop bleeding, and the flies were troublesome when I took off my helmet, which hurt, I asked a doctor to look at it, and he put this thing on to keep the lint in its place.

It was a shrivelled human hand, and about the thumb and forefinger there still dryly hung a fragment of lint which had bandaged a jagged wound.

I followed out his instructions, and ended by laying some lint over the wound and securing all with a neatly sewn on bandage.

There she plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership) and bade me to take care of my cold.

For local application, the sore parts are thickly dusted with fine fresh flour, and covered with soft wadding or surgeon's lint.

They held lint and lotion with superhuman solemnity while I dressed his wounded limb, and they fed him with the most tender solicitude.

It was a troublesome product for the planters, I assure you, for its many seeds clung so tightly to the lint that it was almost out of the question to remove them.

The cotton, having been cleared of its seeds, is now known as lint, and this is bundled together until enough of it is collected to be properly baled for the spinning mills.

By means of enormous pressure they crush down the billowing lint until four feet of it can be reduced to a thickness of not more than seven inches.

These are so arranged that when they are tightened they draw together the sides of the canal; they are then secured over a compress of lint.

The planters had a talk with the young man, and explained to him the difficulty which they found in separating the seed from the lint.

The professor had only to take a step, and then with a rapidity that was almost marvelous the marks of blood had been removed, a little lint and a bandage applied, and the Hakim was pointing to a large bullet, that which had nearly passed through the wounded man without touching a vital place.

When the machine is set in motion the cotton is put into a hopper, which feeds it to the grid, and the revolving saws catch the fiber or lint with their teeth and drag it through the wires.

As the wheel turns round with its teeth full of cotton lint, a revolving brush sweeps it away so that the teeth are cleaned and ready to take up more lint.

As these joints are usually used on waste lines, these ragged places make an ideal place for lint and grease to collect and cause a stoppage.

Then, as I bent over the rough wagon, I saw her lying there very white and still, her torn hands swathed with lint, her bandaged feet wrapped in furs.

As soon as Mary arrived at home she told her mother what she had heard; and lint, salve, and bandages were speedily got ready.

To condense the weight of our exports, selling less in the bushel and more on hoof and in fleece; less in lint and more in warp and woof.

Avoid using cotton waste for this, as a considerable quantity of lint is almost sure to be left behind and this will clog up the oil passages in the bearings and strainer.

Cleanse the skin of the distal phalanx of the second finger of the left hand above the root of the nail with lint and ether.

To be sure, rolls of lint lay in corners, smears of ashes were on the stove hearth, and dust still lurked on chair rounds and table legs.

Besides, the stalk grows too much to a tree and is not prolific proportionately, and the quality of the lint is equal to American "middling."

At the same time the saintly Clara Barton collects her cordials, medicines and delicacies, her lint and bandages, and, putting them in the ambulance assigned, joins the same moving train.

The quickest and most skillful pair of hands could separate only a pound or two of lint from its three pounds of seeds in an ordinary working day.

A cloth should never be used, for it leaves some lint behind; but take off the dust with a painter's brush, or a pair of bellows.

The walking wounded, with arms in slings or heads covered in lint, were helped down the ship's sides by smoke-blackened comrades in uniforms torn to shreds by the fierce work of naval war.

Ruth prepared lint and bandages for the wounded from supplies which Allen had also brought, then she stood ready to reload the extra rifles and small arms, or, at need, to use a revolver herself.

A long time would you have to polish your shoes, pick the lint off your clothes, and deck yourself out to get an inheritance, if you had no letter and seal with which you could prove your right to it.

After the sac is opened a portion of lint should be used, to render the part perfectly dry, which may then be lightly pencilled over with lunar caustic, or moistened with some caustic solution.

Wallace went to work with the hypodermic while the boys aided John to cleanse the explorer's body, then handed the syringe to John to clean and turned to the bandages and lint.

Then, after stopping the open end of the shell with a tiny wad of lint to keep the remainder of the powder from running out, he inserted it in the chamber of his rifle.

The lint, which the Nurses carried in their satchels, was laid upon the wound to absorb the poison, and the balm applied.

The two women began anew to prepare lint and bandages, while the young apprentices, resuming their work with renewed ardor, continued shafting the iron pikes.

They pretend to sew and knit for the hospitals here and Confederate prisoners, and I feel sure they smuggle the lint and clothes and supplies through the lines to Rebels openly in arms.

It was time, for I was so utterly exhausted that I felt doubtful whether I should ever recover; so I lay passive whilst Ella tripped about, procuring basins of warm water, bathing my wounds, and binding them up carefully and tenderly with soft lint and ample bandages.

Morse took it, opened it, and revealed a bottle filled with some substance like kerosene, a small box of matches and some lint.

She asked, putting down the cup and busying herself at once, fixing the cushions more comfortably, and moistening the lint and bandage over his temples.

To sit here and prepare lint while the whole world is astir, while every heart is swelling with patriotism and warlike enthusiasm!

We made some lint out of my handkerchief, and a fillet to bind it withal out of my shirt, after I had first washed the wound with urine.

Medicine, too, but only a very little of this, Roland thought, would be needed, although, on the other hand, he stowed away lint and bandages in abundance, with a few surgical instruments.

The fabrics and upholstery used in furnishing catch dust which contains lint, grit, organic material from our bodies, and bacteria.

This excellent idea is like that of certain Dutchmen, who, when they cut themselves with an ax, always apply salve and lint to the cruel steel, and leave the wound to heal as fast as possible.

His head was crossed with bandages, his wrist was wrapped with lint and a wet compress was upon the ankle of his strained left foot.

Regiment after regiment was sent, thousands and tens of thousands of soldiers were slain, the national debt leaped into hundreds of millions and the poor women all over that beautiful and unhappy country began making bandages and picking lint for the wounded.

The doctor made a brief examination of his wounds, got out some lint and lotion, and as he bandaged him declared that he would be quite sound in a few days.

When the job was done, and he had adjusted the lint, steeped in antiseptic lotion, with skillfully folded roller bandages, he gave her more milk and brandy.

It was a common sight to see people going round with fearful ulcers, which, for the want of a few rags or a piece of lint and a little salve, were left exposed.

Doctor Norton, too, was making elaborate preparations in the way of lint and bandages, and Ronald helped him make stretchers enough to last during a lifetime of war.

A corner of the wetted lint was lifted up, and I saw that the right eye was closed by a great lump formed by swollen tissues, and discovered that the lint was crimson with blood oozing from the ear.

He noticed another thing, that this bundle was not at all like wood gnawed by other insects; it was not sawdust, but threads of some little length bruised into lint.

She prepared bandages and lint, and made every thing ready for the restoration and comfort of the sufferers when they should arrive.

Many an article found its way to the army that was useful, and when blood had been spilled, these same patient and tearful women sent lint, and bandages, and medicines, for the sick and wounded.

She employed herself frequently in spinning on the lint wheel, at which time I used to sit at her side, learning verses which she would rehearse to me.

With a pair of pincers the surgeon broke off one or two pieces of bone about the size of a tooth, then jammed in a piece of lint soaked in iodine.

The pushing in of long pieces of lint and the removal of splinters, which took place every morning, was quite painless, and only took a few minutes.

Another application reported to be very efficacious in allaying the pain, is a piece of lint wetted with a saturated solution of carbonate of soda.

To make her confess they poured boiling oil over her legs, which produced blisters and ulcers, and her son hearing of it sent her a roll of lint to put round them.

A boy followed at his heels with a basket, where phials, lint, and surgical tools rather courted than shunned observation.

I showed the poor old soul how to make some lint, and lay it on the sore, thickly overspread with tallow from the fat of a goat.

Later, when there were sick and wounded to be cared for, these organizations of women were of inestimable service in preparing lint, bandages, and delicacies for the hospitals.

Having effected that object, he drew some lint and salve, such as was then greatly in use, from the locker below, and therewith supplied it with a soothing dressing.

Daisy, unabashed and with a little shrug, donned her slightly soiled waist and brushed the worst of the lint from her travel-wrinkled skirt.

Pieces of lint should be dipped in cold water and applied smoothly to the face and other portions of the body where the eruption is abundant and the skin inflamed.

There was a chest in the torpedo room well stocked with everything necessary in the medicine line, also with lint, bandages, and splints.

Later, like two savages, they were clothing themselves crudely in scraps of lint torn from what looked like a sleeping pallet.

We put iodine on the wound and bound it up with lint and bandages, and in a few minutes he was discussing matters with the new folk.

A slip of soft lint, dipped in oil, is interposed betwixt the lid and eyeball, for an hour or two, in order to protect that delicate organ from the caustic.

Seizing a handful of lint I soak it in a bucket and squeeze the water from this improvised sponge in the formless opening which is in the place of his mouth.

We started with three wagons, all loaded with provisions, horse feed, camp equipage, bedding, medicines, lints, and bandages.

Brownies, meantime, clear up the place, make bed ready, get out lint and bandages, etc., from cupboards, boil up kettle, put away electrical apparatus, etc.

"She'll be winging us in a brace of shakes," declared Captain Blair, as the steward deftly bound lint over the Old Man's forehead.

An inner door with ground glass panels led to a dingy surgery, a white sink in one corner, and a dresser littered with instrument cases, packages of lint, reels of plaster, and boxes of bandages.

If we rub a tube or rod of glass with woolen or silk it will attract light articles, such as cotton, feathers, lint, etc., so that they will adhere to it.

"There's a poor lawyer saved," muttered the old man, taking down his overcoat from a peg behind the door, and snapping off a shred of lint on the collar with his lean forefinger.

The Skipper was in the steering well, with the tiller in one hand and his toe in the other; and Peter was administering iodine and lint to Steve's crushed finger.

Rich in the first place removed the protruding point of ragged bone with the saw, and then, dipping a bunch of lint in the blood that issued from the flesh wound, gave it to Dan to hold.

His gun between his knees and one hand on his hip, he was sitting bolt upright with a grave and determined air, his head enveloped in a turban of crimson lint.

Thirty years ago when an operation was to be performed or an accident cared for we laid out our instruments which were visibly clean, used them with hands which were as clean as those of any gentleman, and applied soft linen rags, lint, and other dressings.

It is usual however in applying the first dressing at the circumcision to use lint to surround the root of the penis as it is firmer than gauze.

Strips of lint soaked in the astringent solution are then carefully applied and retained in position by the firm pressure of a bandage.

The women made cartridges and sand bags, and in town and country alike scraped lint and prepared bandages, in sad anticipation of what was soon to come.