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The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.

That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.

A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.

ark, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. The plaster of the wall of the King's palace. Dan. v. 5.

Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.

e lathing, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the place of wooden lathing for holding plastering. -- Wire mattress. See Wire bed, above. -- Wire micrometer, a micrometer having spider lines, or fine wires, across the field of the instrument. -- Wire nail, a nail formed of a piece of wire which is headed and point…