Meanings of cotton wadding in English

A scrap of cotton wadding is also good for stopping blood.

The animals were cleverly sewn, with cotton wadding behind the figures to give them a three-dimensional quality.

I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it; and, finally, covered it over with cotton wadding and carbolized bandages.

I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages.

I bathed his face in oil, put cotton wadding on the raw surfaces, and administered a hypodermic of morphia.

Damp clouds of cotton wadding leaked out of it along every seam as if something inside it had blown up.

Strips of an old handkerchief, underclothing, or cotton wadding may also be used as a compress, provided pressure is not neglected.

Besides that, it had the mud of three counties plastered inside and out, and the upholstery showed sizable patches of cotton wadding.

To the vines were tied any number of artificial melons made of green paper stuffed with cotton wadding which concealed tiny favors.

Before sewing the lining on an interlining of cotton wadding should be cut out and basted in place with a few long stitches.

It was Grace Harlowe in a robe made of cotton wadding thickly sprinkled with diamond dust, gotten up to represent the spirit of Christmas.

Beside him was the high, old-fashioned mantelpiece of white marble-thetop of it strewed with cotton wadding and bandages, graduated measures, and little bottles.

Without removing the bag from around the pistillate blossoms, the hybridizer forces the point of the atomizer through the cotton wadding between bag and branch.

Cotton wadding puffed out, and it served to clean the blade.

"Scraps," she said, rising to her feet and patting her cotton wadding smooth where it had bunched up.