cauter
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French cautère, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cauterium, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek καυτήρ (kautḗr), variant of καυστήρ (kaustḗr, “cauterizing apparatus”), from καίω (kaíō, “burn”)). Compare caustic, cautery.
Noun
cauter (plural cauters)
- A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Minsheu to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cauter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)