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What does Iago mean by "clyster pipes" (Othello, Act 2 Scene 1)?
A clyster pipe is literally the tube that inserts in the anus to deliver medicine. I think Iago is being crass here, saying "I wish those fingers you press to ...
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Clyster or enema pipe - The Mary Rose Museum
It appears that it is actually a clyster, an enema pipe which would have had a pig's bladder mounted on the flanged end, allowing fluid to be administered ...
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clyster-pipe - ShakespearesWords.com
A clyster-pipe is an enema syringe or douche tube.
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clyster-pipe
clyster-pipe A tube or pipe for administering clysters.1604 Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 178 Yet againe, your fingers to your lippes? Would they were Clister-pipes for your sake. 1622 Fletcher Sea Voyage i. i, Come Surgeon, out with your glister-pipe And strike a galliard. 1755 Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 120,...
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clyster-pipe, n. - Green's Dictionary of Slang
clyster-pipe n. ... 1. a doctor, an apothecary. ... 2. (also glister-pipe) the penis. ... ← clyme, n. C ...
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clyster-pipe, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
OED's earliest evidence for clyster-pipe is from before 1616, in the writing of William Shakespeare, playwright and poet. clyster-pipe is formed within English ...
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clyster
▪ I. clyster, n. (ˈklɪstə(r)) Forms: 5–8 clister, 6–7 clystre, 5 clyster; 5 glystere, 6–8 glister, 6–9 glyster. [a. F. clystère (13th c. in Littré), or L. clyster, -ēris, Gr. κλυστήρ a clyster-pipe, syringe, clyster, f. κλύζ-ειν to wash or rinse out, drench.] 1. A medicine injected into the rectum, ...
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Enema - Wikipedia
An enema, also known as a clyster, is the rectal administration of a fluid by injection into the lower bowel via the anus. The word enema can also refer to ...
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clyster-pipe - definition and meaning - Wordnik
clyster-pipe: The anal tube of an enema-syringe.
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"Clyster-Pipe." | Catalogue search - Wellcome Collection
A doctor with a garland of pill boxes, bottles and a clyster pipe; a publican with pipes, different bottles and a punch bowl. Etching after T. Rowlandson.
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Artifact of the Month: Bad Medicine | Queen Anne's Revenge Project
Clyster is just a fancy word for enema. Enemas are liquid remedies administered into the colon using a clyster syringe, which consisted of a ...
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The Golden Rump
injecting a solution of aurum potabile from time to time from a contrivance that is "a Golden Tube… with a large Bladder at the End, resembling a common Clyster-Pipe
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Syringe
There are fountain syringes where the liquid is in a bag or can and goes to the nozzle via a pipe. In earlier times, clyster syringes were used for that purpose.
Loose snus is often applied using modified syringes.
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Tobacco smoke enema
revived her by pouring hot cordial down her throat, rubbing her limbs and extremities, bleeding her, applying heating plasters and a "heating odoriferous Clyster On the advice of a passing sailor, the woman's husband inserted the stem of the sailor's pipe into her rectum, covered the bowl with a piece of perforated
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