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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

... pocket some adhesive plaster, and flakes of some strong styptic, and a piece of elastic. "Now," said she to Vizard, "give me a little opening in the middle to plaster these strips across the wound." He did so. Then in a moment she passed the elastic under the sufferer's head, drew it over with the styptic between her finger ...

— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade

... Oxalis; or better, see Bibliography in "Natural History Review," No. VIII., page 419 (October, 1862) for quotation from M. Baillon on pollen-tubes finding way from anthers to stigma in Helianthemum. I should doubt gum getting solid from [i.e. because of] continued secretion. Why not sprinkle fresh plaster of Paris and make impenetrable crust? (637/1. The suggestion that the stigma should be covered with a crust of plaster of Paris, pierced by a hole to allow the pollen-tubes to enter, bears a resemblance ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin

... one or other set of symptoms is prominent she gets the appropriate label, and sometimes she continues to exhibit only the single phase of nervous exhaustion or of spinal irritation. Far more often she runs the gauntlet of nerve-doctors, gynaecologists, plaster jackets, braces, water-treatment, and all the fantastic ...

— Fat and Blood - An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria • S. Weir Mitchell

... Faerie Queene, and the Orlando Furioso, of both. The terms were formerly identical, or used as such; and neither is the best that might be found. The term Imagination is too confined: often too material. It presents too invariably the idea of a solid body;—of 'images' in the sense of the plaster-cast cry about the streets. Fancy, on the other hand, while it means nothing but a spiritual image or apparition ([Greek: Phantasma], appearance, phantom), has rarely that freedom from visibility which is one of the highest privileges of imagination. Viola, in Twelfth ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

... withal. His wife took the diagnosis of his complaints and prescribed profanity. She thought he would feel better if between the paroxysms of grief and pain he would swear a little. For each boil a plaster ...

— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

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