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ts 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.

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

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.

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.]

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

and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.

A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis. -- Blister fly, a blister beetle. -- Blister plaster, a plaster des…

To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.

oating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. W. Black.

The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson.

t of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

as a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.