cauterizing stone

• Rhymes: -əʊn

cauterizing stone (plural cauterizing stones)

1. Lunar caustic; silver nitrate used for cauterizing.
   • 1994, Constance Garnet, transl., edited by Elizabeth Cheresh Allen, Fathers and Sons, translation of Отцы и дети (Ottsy i dety) by Ivan Turgenev, published 1862, →ISBN, page 198:

     Bazarov came into his father’s room and asked him if he had a cauterizing stone.
     “Yes. What do you want it for?”
     “I need it...to burn a cut.”