English Dictionary

dossil

noun

(surgery) A small roll or plug used to stop a sore, wound, etc.; a pledget. / (printing) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.

I used a dossil to clean the wound.

意味（1）

(surgery) A 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 […].

意味（2）

(printing) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.