Definitions for: Bandage


[n] a piece of soft material that protects an injured part of the body
[v] dress by covering or binding; "The nurse bandaged a sprained ankle"; "bandage an incision"
[v] wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose



Webster (1913) Definition: Band"age, n. [F. bandage, fr. bande. See Band.]
1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and
binding up wounds, etc.

2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over
or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a
ligature.

Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage
over her eyes. --Addison.


Band"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandaged (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Bandaging (?).]
To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the
eyes.

Synonyms: bind

See Also: adhesive bandage, capeline bandage, cast, compression bandage, dress, dressing, elastic bandage, fasten, fix, four-tailed bandage, gauze, gauze bandage, immovable bandage, ligate, medical dressing, oblique bandage, plaster bandage, plaster cast, roller bandage, scarf bandage, secure, sling, suspensory, suspensory bandage, swathe, tourniquet, triangular bandage, truss, wrapping

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