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Definition of plaster

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Plaster (n.) An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster..

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Plaster :: Plaster (v. t.) Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster..

Mortar :: Mortar (v. t.) To plaster or make fast with mortar.

Baseboard :: Baseboard (n.) A board, or other woodwork, 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..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint..

Gypsum :: Gypsum (n.) A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety..

Lime :: Lime (n.) Oxide of calcium; the white or gray, caustic substance, usually called quicklime, obtained by calcining limestone or shells, the heat driving off carbon dioxide and leaving lime. It develops great heat when treated with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc..

Sour :: Sour (v. t.) To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes..

Set-fair :: Set-fair (n.) In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface..

Trim :: Trim (n.) The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points..

Plastering :: Plastering (n.) Same as Plaster, n., 2..

Emplaster :: Emplaster (n.) See Plaster.

Screed :: Screed (n.) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat..

Brick :: Brick (v. t.) 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..

Lath :: Lath (n.) A thin, narrow strip of wood, nailed to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting the tiles, plastering, etc. A corrugated metallic strip or plate is sometimes used..

Ground :: Ground (n.) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; -- usually in the plural..

Daub :: Daub (v. t.) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear..

Key :: Key (n.) That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.

Topic :: Topic (n.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc..

Bronze :: Bronze (n.) To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals..

Fresco :: Fresco (a.) A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.