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of Last, to endure. Chaucer.

A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last.

A red color.[Obs.] Spenser.

Non-germinal.

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.

See Protoplasm.

See Plaster. [Obs.] Wiseman.

The Athecata; -- so called because the medusoid buds are not inclosed in a capsule.

The interval or space between two pilasters. Elmes.

An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.…

Furnished with pilasters.

s composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.

One who applies plaster or mortar. "Thy father was a plasterer." Shak.