Tampon: Definition and part of speech

Tampon

  1. v. t. To plug with a tampon.
  2. n. A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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