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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

... square of newspaper into a fine boat measuring thirteen inches from stem to stern. It will be a good, stanch craft like Fig. 25, to float and sail out in the open on pond, lake, or river, or at home in ...

— Little Folks' Handy Book • Lina Beard

... Ellet. He was five or ten minutes behind the Queen in starting, but he has appeared at the right moment. He, too, has been unmindful of the shot and shell falling around him. He aims straight as an arrow for the Beauregard. The Beauregard is stiff, stanch, and strong, but her timbers, planks, knees, and braces are no more than laths before the powerful stroke of the Monarch. The sharpshooters pour in their fire. The engineer of the Monarch puts his force-pumps in ...

— My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field • Charles Carleton Coffin

... through the troublous times which followed the French invasion of 1494, the sack of Prato in 1512, the sack of Rome in 1527, and the murder of Duke Alessandro in 1536. Even when he seemed to favor a republican policy, he continued in secret stanch to the family by whom he hoped to obtain honors and privileges in the state. Like all the Ottimati, so furiously abused by Pitti, Francesco Vettori found himself at last deceived in his expectations. To the Medici they sold the freedom of their native city, and in return for this unpatriotic ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

... lookout of loose stones from which the prospector's fire had come. One of the bullets penetrated the opening and plowed a furrow through Lane's scalp, toppling him to his knees. He scrambled quickly to his feet, and, hastily pressing his long hair back from his forehead, to stanch the bleeding wound, sought the protection the middle lookout. ...

— The Round-up - A Romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama • John Murray and Marion Mills Miller

... endeavored to approach the servants at the rectory, but—no go. They are of course stanch and loyal to their young master. That is only natural. Mrs. Swinton has been shadowed, and she has made no attempt to meet her son. Our only danger is that he may get out of the country again. Every ...

— The Scarlet Feather • Houghton Townley

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