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nd is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Without columns or pilasters. Weale.

classical; refined. Attic base (Arch.), a peculiar form of molded base for a column or pilaster, described by Vitruvius, applied under the Roman Empire to the Ionic and Corinthian and "Roman Doric" orders, and imitated by the architects of the Renaissance. -- Attic faith, inviolable faith. -- Attic purity, special p…

A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.

A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis. -- Blister fly, a blister beetle. -- Blister plaster, a plaster des…

To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.

ating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. W. Black.

The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson.

of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

s a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.

The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft.

A white or colored wash for the ceiling or other plastering of a room, consisting of a mixture of clear glue, Paris white or zinc white, and water. [Also spelt kalsomine.]

Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster.

ked by, or decorated with, projecting moldings or small columns; as, a cantoned pier or pilaster.

The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.

(Arch.) A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.

The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc.

hich is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.