stanch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Archaic spelling of staunch.

   “a stanch ship    a stanch churchman”

2. zarf Possibly strictly.

   “But you vvill loſe your Labour, and vvhat is more, their Love and Reverence too, if they can receive from others, vvhat you deny them. This is to be kept very ſtanch, and carefully to be vvatched.”

3. fiil To stop the flow of (water or some other liquid).

   “I will couer the depe vpon him, I will ſtaunch his floudes, and the greate waters ſhalbe reſtrayned.”

4. fiil To stop the flow of (blood); also, to stop (a wound) from bleeding.

   “A small amount of cotton can be stuffed into the nose to stanch the flow of blood if necessary.”

5. fiil To make (a building or other structure) watertight or weatherproof.

   “His gathered sticks to stanch the wall / Of the snow-tower, when snow should fall; […]”

6. fiil To check or stop, or deter (an action).

   “[W]hy ſhould a man refuſe the glad tydings of ſalutation, or ſtop his eares at the voyce of the skilfull charmer, becauſe the meſſenger that brings the tydings, is ouertaken vvith ſome knovvne ſinne? Or becauſe hee that charmeth, ſtancheth not the iſſue of his ovvne corruption?”

7. fiil To stop the progression of (an illness); also, to alleviate (pain); often followed by of: to relieve (someone's) pain.

   “It [squill] ſtancheth the ache of the ſtomack⸝ it helpeth digeſtion⸝ and maketh a man well colored.”

8. fiil To extinguish or put out (as a fire, anger, etc.); also, to quench or satisfy (as desire, hunger, thirst, etc.).

   “[A]s an angry Cur / Snarles vvhile he feeds, ſo vvill I ſeize and ſtanch / The hunger of my love on this proud beauty, / And leave the ſcraps for Slaves.”

9. fiil Of bleeding: to stop.

   “And a woman hauing an iſſue of blood twelue yeres, which had ſpent all her liuing vpon Phiſitions, neither could be healed of any, / Came behinde him [Jesus], and touched the border of his garment: and immediatly her iſſue of blood ſtanched.”

10. fiil Of an occurrence or other thing: to come to an end; to cease; also, of persons: to stop acting violently.
11. isim Alternative spelling of staunch (“that which stanches; act of stanching”).
12. isim A floodgate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release; also, a dam or lock in a river.