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Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty complexion." G. Eliot.

per of large size. See under Paper, n. Atlas powder, a nitroglycerin blasting compound of pasty consistency and great explosive power.

ryden. He that keeps nor crust nor crumb. Shak. They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty. Macualay.

Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc.

Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

terial for glaze of pottery. Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot.

or use in painting, or in making bas-reliefs and the like; by extension, a plasterlike or pasty material spread upon a surface to fit it for painting or gilding, or a surface so prepared.

d to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air. "A hotvenison pasty." Shak.

A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls. [Written also loup.]

who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass. [R.]

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

grinding, pounding, kneading, rubbing, etc.; as, to reduce a substance to powder, or to a pasty mass; to reduce fruit, wood, or paper rags, to pulp. It were but right And equal to reduce me to my dust. Milton.

Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.