Hypertext Webster Gateway: "stanch"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stanch \Stanch\, n.
1. That which stanches or checks. [Obs.]
2. A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a
boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
--Knight.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stanch \Stanch\, a. [Compar. {Stancher}; superl. {Stanchest}.]
[From {Stanch}, v. t., and hence literally signifying,
stopped or stayed; cf. Sp. estanco stopped, tight, not leaky,
as a ship. See {Stanch}, v. t.] [Written also {staunch}.]
1. Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.
One of the closets is parqueted with plain deal, set
in diamond, exceeding stanch and pretty. --Evelyn.
2. Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty;
steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend
or adherent. --V. Knox.
In politics I hear you 're stanch. --Prior.
3. Close; secret; private. [Obs.]
This to be kept stanch. --Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stanch \Stanch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stanched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Stanching}.] [OF. estanchier, F. ['e]tancher to stpo a
liquid from flowing; akin to Pr., Sp., & Pg. estancar, It.
stancare to weary, LL. stancare, stagnare, to stanch, fr. L.
stagnare to be or make stagnant. See {Stagnate}.]
1. To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop
the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound. [Written
also {staunch}.]
Iron or a stone laid to the neck doth stanch the
bleeding of the nose. --Bacon.
2. To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stanch \Stanch\, v. i.
To cease, as the flowing of blood.
Immediately her issue of blood stanched. --Luke viii.
44.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stanch \Stanch\, v. t.
To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
His gathered sticks to stanch the wall Of the snow
tower when snow should fall. --Emerson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
stanch
v : as of the flow of a liquid flowing, such as blood from a
wound [syn: {stem}, {staunch}, {halt}]
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