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Formed of wood pulp by molds; relating to casts made of wood pulp in molds.

A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.

acelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.

lobosa) and sometimes also from the naseberry or sapodilla (Sapota zapotilla). It is more plastic than caoutchouc and more elastic than gutta-percha, as an adulterant of which it is used in England. It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum.

A plastic operation on the pupil, as for forming an artificial pupil. -- Cor`e*plas"tic (-plas"tik), a.

An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material. [R.] Elmes.

The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.

Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. Rogers.

Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable. Wordsworth.

unavoidably; imperatively. "Good reasons must, of force, give place to better." Shak. -- Plastic force (Physiol.), the force which presumably acts in the growth and repair of the tissues. -- Vital force (Physiol.), that force or power which is inherent in organization; that form of energy which is the cause of the vi…

Giving form; having the power of giving form; plastic; as, the formative arts. The meanest plant can not be raised without seed, by any formative residing in the soil. Bentley.

erted in the slit of the other. -- Grafting scissors, a surgeon's scissors, used in rhinoplastic operations, etc. -- Grafting tool. (a) Any tool used in grafting. (b) A very strong curved spade used in digging canals. -- Grafting wax, a composition of rosin, beeswax tallow, etc., used in binding up the wounds of new…

The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.

with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.

ne the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy. The imagination of common language -- the productive imagination of philosophers -- is nothing but the representative process plus the process to which I would give the name of the "comparativ…

sets of architectural members penetrating one another, in appearance, as if both had been plastic when they were put together.

The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.

thout right or welcome. Intrusive rocks (Geol.), rocks which have been forced, while in a plastic or melted state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks. The term is sometimes used as equivalent to plutonic rocks. It is then contrasted with effusive or volcanic rocks. -- In*tru"sive*ly, adv.…

A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.

One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art. [Written also modeller.]