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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.

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.

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 Plaster. [Obs.] Wiseman.

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.

Same as Plaster, n., 2.

Resembling plaster of Paris. [R.] "Out of gypseous or plasterly ground." Fuller.

Plastering used to finish architectural constructions, exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.

Of the nature of plaster. The stone . . . is a poor plastery material. Clough.

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar. [U. S.]

of numerous species of delicate, usually pink, calcareous hydroid corals of the genus Stylaster.

A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.

ation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts without suppuration. -- Adhesive plaster, a sticking; a plaster containing resin, wax, litharge, and olive oil.