Слово "stanch". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Again no Martian interfered with me, and tearing a piece of silk from my cape I endeavored to staunch the flow of blood from her nostrils.

The rebel knew where he was striking and it was impossible to staunch the blood.

Alban was clever with his fingers, and though the blood began to flow again they stanched it.

Such charms were there in the voice, in the manner, and in the affable deportment of Sophia, that she ravished the landlady to the highest degree; and that good woman, concluding that she had attended Jenny Cameron, became in a moment a stanch Jacobite, and wished heartily well to the young Pretender’s cause, from the great sweetness and affability with which she had been treated by his supposed mistress.