An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.
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To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.
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To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.
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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
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To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrume…
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An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.
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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
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To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.
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of Dress
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The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.
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The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…
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Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats.
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To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
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of Parget
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To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.
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A plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. It is a powerful irritant.
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Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for intern…
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A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
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Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
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To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
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To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.
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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
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of Daub
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of Plaster
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A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline vari…
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To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.
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A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice.
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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
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Plastering used to finish architectural constructions, exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used…
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A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm.
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