stanch

To stop or check the flow of (blood or tears, for example).

To stop the flow of blood from (a wound).

To stop, check, or allay.

A flood-gate in a river for accumulating a head of water to float boats over shallows; a weir. See stank.

That which stanches; that which quenches or allays.

To cause to cease flowing; check the flow of.

To stop a flow from; dry, as a wound, by the application of a styptic.

To quench; allay; assuage.

To free; relieve: with of.