Lint

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 25

A loosely woven or partly felt i ma of broken linen-fibers, made by scraping anj "picking" old linen cloth. It is used as a dre in for wounds and raw surfaces. See Charpie . L., Corr; mon, lint that is twilled on one side and " woolly I on the other. In the spreading of an ointment t! twilled side is used. Linguiform (ling' '-gwif-orm). Shaped like a tongue.