vbl. sb. [-ING1.] The action of the vb. STANCH in various senses.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, III. i. (Skeat), 50. It is nedeful and noble in staunching of bloode, there els to moche wolde out renne.
c. 1400. Brut, lxxv. (1906), I. 74. His breþ shal bene stanchyn of þerst to ham þat bene aþreste.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law of Arms (S.T.S.), 19. Thare is twa maner of fontaynis of the cristyn faith, ane is cummand fra God him self, that is but stanching.
1520. in Charters, etc. Edin. (1871), 204. For stancheing of troubile hereftir.
1553. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 149. For … stancheing of malefactouris and ordorying of the Bordouris.
1621. N. Ward, in 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. II. 14. The keeper … att the stenching of the blood, dyed.
1822. Scott, Nigel, ix. To … drink a blithe cup of kindness … to the stanching of feud, and perpetuation of amity.
1845–6. Trench, Huls. Lect., Ser. II. vi. 234. A binding up of hurts, a stanching of wounds.
Comb. 1658. A. Fox, trans. Würtz’ Surg., IV. iv. 321. Then another broad and thin piece must be laid on the wound, or else Cotton wool, mingled with a little of stenching powder. [orig. Ger. Pulver von Blutstellungen.]
