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Plaster

noun

(Formerly written also plaister)

1.

A mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings.

2.

Any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs. Synonym: plaster of Paris.

3.

A medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.. Synonyms: cataplasm, poultice.

4.

A surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling). Synonym: plasterwork.

5.

Adhesive tape used in dressing wounds. Synonyms: adhesive plaster, sticking plaster.

verb

(past & past part. plastered; pres. part. plastering)

1.

Apply a heavy coat to. Synonyms: plaster over, stick on.

2.

Cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on. Synonym: beplaster. "She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco"

3.

Affix conspicuously.

4.

Apply a plaster cast to.

5.

Coat with plaster. Synonym: daub.

6.

Dress by covering with a therapeutic substance. Synonym: poultice.

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"Plaster" Quotes from Famous Books

... isn't any lath and plaster to the cottage, but it's good and tight except in very bad ...

— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham

... a damp course of tarred felt, which cannot possibly last more than a few years, was inserted about a foot from the ground. Then the wall, being quite insufficient to stand the heavy drift of weather to which it is exposed, was dabbled over with two coatings of plaster on the outside, the outermost being given a primitive picturesqueness by means of a sham surface of rough-cast pebbles and white-wash, while within, to conceal the rough discomfort of the surface, successive coatings of plaster, and finally, paper, ...

— Anticipations - Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon - Human life and Thought • Herbert George Wells

... inch. Not another board proved loose,—to lift those which were nailed down required tools, and those we were without. We sounded all the walls,—with the exception of the party walls they were the usual lath and plaster constructions, and showed no signs of having been tampered with. The ceilings were intact; if anything was concealed in them it must have been there some time, —the cement was old and dirty. We took the closet ...

— The Beetle - A Mystery • Richard Marsh

... no room for doubt as to the identity and the sex. Professor Junker has described[27] an interesting series of variations of these practices. In two graves the bodies were covered with a layer of stucco plaster. First the corpse was covered with a fine linen cloth: then the plaster was put on, and modelled into the form of the body (p. 252). But in two other cases it was not the whole body that was covered with this layer of stucco, ...

— The Evolution of the Dragon • G. Elliot Smith

... ceremony to the village, they are received with sobs and tears of joy by the women, as if the grave had given up its dead. At first the young men keep their eyes rigidly closed or even sealed with a plaster of chalk, and they appear not to understand the words of command which are given them by an elder. Gradually, however, they come to themselves as if awakening from a stupor, and next day they bathe and wash off the crust of white ...

— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer

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