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styptick

styptick is the obsolete form of styptic.

Meaning of styptic

Adjective

styptic (comparative more styptic, superlative most styptic)

  1. Bringing about contraction of tissues; harsh, raw, austere.
    • Boyles turns to look over his shoulder, squinting into the styptic sun, and then flags a hand over his head.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 328
  2. (broadly) That stops bleeding; especially, in a minor way, topically.
    • The growth on top was a scrubby plant, unknown anywhere else on Malta, which was believed to have styptic qualities – it could staunch bleeding when packed on top of a wound […].1973, Nicholas Monsarrat, The Kapillan of Malta

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Forms of styptick

Adjective
comparativemore styptick
superlativemost styptick
Noun
pluralstypticks

Questions about styptick

What is styptick the obsolete form of?
Styptick is the obsolete form of styptic.

Words near styptick in the dictionary

  1. styptic pencils
  2. styptic tree
  3. styptic trees
  4. styptical
  5. stypticity
  6. styptick
  7. stypticks
  8. styptics
  9. Stypven
  10. Stypven time
  11. Styr

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