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A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes. Putty powder, an oxide of tin, or of tin and lead in various proportions, much…

fect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. Spectator.

An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

y in changing the color so as to render it incapable of fixing itself in the fibers.. The pastes prepared for this purpose are called resist pastes. F. C. Calvert.

A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.

a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers; as, to roll a field; to roll paste; to roll steel rails, etc.

A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and reduced to a proper thickness.

A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed. -- a.

A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.

nvited guest coming with one who is invited. [A Latinism] Nares. I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement. Massinger. Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death. Ps. xxiii. 4.

ntervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.

-- Spring back (Bookbinding), a back with a curved piece of thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the inside, the effect of which is to make the leaves of a book thus bound (as a ledger or other account or blank book) spring up and lie flat. -- Spring balance, a contrivance for measuring weight or force…

in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.

To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall. The green caterpillar breedeth in the inward parts of roses not blown, where the dew sticketh. Bacon.

Same as Paster, 2. [Political Cant, U.S.]

The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.

Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.

To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.

The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South.