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poultice collapse: a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.; dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

regulate collapse: fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of; "regulate the temperature"; "modulate the pitch"; bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations; "We cannot regulate the way people dress"; "This town likes to regulate"

time signature collapse: a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat

entice collapse: provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation"

pace collapse: a step in walking or running; the relative speed of progress or change; "he lived at a fast pace"; "he works at a great rate"; "the pace of events accelerated"; the rate of moving (especially walking or running); measure (distances) by pacing; "step off ten yards"; regulate or set the pace of; "Pace your efforts"; walk with slow or fast paces; "He paced up and down the hall"; go at a pace; "The horse paced"

black out collapse: suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"; darken completely; "The dining room blackened out"; obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"

person collapse: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"; a human body (usually including the clothing); "a weapon was hidden on his person"; a grammatical category of pronouns and verb forms; "stop talking about yourself in the third person"

Mafioso collapse: a member of the Mafia crime syndicate in the United States; a member of the Sicilian Mafia

dealer collapse: a firm engaged in trading; the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game; a seller of illicit goods; "a dealer in stolen goods"

pewter collapse: any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)

racketeer collapse: someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion); carry on illegal business activities involving crime

guidepost collapse: a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior

signboard collapse: structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted; "the highway was lined with signboards"

dull collapse: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"; emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"; (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues"; darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a grey rainy afternoon"; "grey clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"; not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use"; not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain"; lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods"; being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets"; not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"; blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather; make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"; become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"; make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface"; make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"

funereal collapse: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"

arsenic collapse: a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar; a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer

soubrette collapse: a minor female role as a pert flirtatious lady's maid in a comedy; a pert or flirtatious young girl

mercury poisoning collapse: a toxic condition caused by ingesting or inhaling mercury; acute mercury poisoning causes a metallic taste and vomiting and diarrhea and kidney problems that may lead to death

jet lag collapse: fatigue and sleep disturbance resulting from disruption of the body's normal circadian rhythm as a result of jet travel

radiation sickness collapse: syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours; "he was suffering from radiation"

trench foot collapse: resembling frostbite but without freezing; resulting from exposure to cold and wet

herald collapse: (formal) a person who announces important news; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet"

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