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Definition of "linseed-meal" [linseed-meal]

  • The meal of linseed or flaxseed, used for poultices and as a cattle-food. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "linseed-meal" in a sentence
  • "Next day, the patient finding himself worse, sent for me, and I am trying the exhibition of linseed-meal and rose-pink in small doses, under which treatment he is gradually recovering."
  • "Many now begin to give linseed-meal mixed into hot water, to which is added some skim-milk or buttermilk; and others use a little bran cooked in hay-tea, made by chopping the hay fine and pouring on boiling-hot water, which is allowed to stand awhile on it."
  • "On removing the dressings, the foot presented a very favourable appearance, the treatment therefore varied only in the application of a linseed-meal poultice over the former dressings of tinctures of opium and myrrh, confining the whole in a soft leather boot."