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verb

Stanch v. t. (past & past part. stanched; pres. part. stanching)

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."

To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst. (Obs.)

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."

Stanch v. i. To cease, as the flowing of blood. "Immediately her issue of blood stanched."

noun

Stanch n.

That which stanches or checks. (Obs.)

A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.

adjective

Stanch adj. (compar. stancher; superl. stanchest) (Written also staunch)

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."

Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent. "In politics I hear you 're stanch."

Close; secret; private. (Obs.) "This is to be kept stanch."

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"Stanch" Quotes from Famous Books

... be unscrupulously stanch to one woman than weakly chivalrous toward both; and my mind was made up by the end of dinner. There was only one chance now of saving the wretched Bob, or rather one way of setting to work to save him; and that was by actually adopting the course ...

— No Hero • E.W. Hornung

... conduct of the "hidden press" at Leyden, and as a sufferer for conscience' sake, to require identification. He was a wealthy man, a scholar, writer, printer, and publisher. Was of the University of Leyden, but removed to London after the departure of the chief of the Pilgrims. Was their stanch friend, a loyal defender of the faith, and spent most of his later life in prison, under persecution ...

— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames

... better take a long ocean voyage than be where he could hear and see, and live in daily torment. One comfort came to him when he could not be with Mrs. Garrison (who naively explained that "Gov" was such a dear boy and they were such stanch friends, real comrades, you know). He had early made the acquaintance of Pat Latrobe, and there was a bond of sympathy between them which was none the less strong because, on Prime's side, it could neither ...

— Found in the Philippines - The Story of a Woman's Letters • Charles King

... eyes. It deepened and glowed as Emma McChesney Buck bent to her task and the great jaws of the shears opened and shut on the virgin cloth. Six pairs of eyes followed the fascinating steel before which the cloth rippled and fell away, as water is cleft by the prow of a stanch little boat. Around the curves went the shears, guided by Emma's firm white hands, snipping, slashing, doubling on itself, a very ...

— Emma McChesney & Co. • Edna Ferber

... who in his priestly character had penetrated many state secrets, advanced to greet him, and with the double purpose of procuring the adherence and testing the fidelity of this discontented and wavering son of his stanch old champion, the Duke Somdetch Ong Yai, appointed him on the spot to the command of the army, under the title ...

— The English Governess At The Siamese Court • Anna Harriette Leonowens

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