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dossil|ˈdɒsɪl|
Forms: 3 dosil, 4 dosele, -eil, 5 dosel(le, -ylle, duselle, 6 dossell, 6–8 dozel(l, 7 dossill, 9 dossel, 7– dossil.
[a. OF. dosil, now doisil, douzil spigot, plug, tap, cock:—late L. duciculus (Du Cange), dim. of dux, duc-em, leader. Med.L. had also ducillus, docillus.]
†1. A plug for a barrel; a spigot. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 542 Hii caste awei the dosils, that win orn abrod. 13..Seuyn Sag. (W.) 1150 And tho [= when] he hadde mad holes so fele, In ech he pelt a dosele. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 659 Hic ducellus, dosylle. 1483Cath. Angl. 111/2 A Duselle.
2. A plug of lint or rag for stopping a wound, etc.; a pledget.
1575Banister Chyrurg. i. (1585) 262 With some dozell or fitte bowlster, layde on the place. 1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. 299, I dressed the Bone with Dossils dipt in a newlaid Egg. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. xxvii, A dossil of lint with a snip of plaister. 1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 302, I dressed the wound with small dossils, imbued with vulnerary water.
3. dial. (See quots.)
1828Craven Dialect, Dossel, a wisp of hay or straw to stop up any aperture of a barn, &c. 1847–78Halliwell, Dossel, the rose at the end of a water-pipe.
4. A roll of cloth for wiping off the excessive ink from the surface of a copper-plate in printing.
1874in Knight Dict. Mech. |