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Float :: Float (v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.

Parget :: Parget (n.) Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork..

Casing :: Casing (n.) The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc..

Chunam :: Chunam (n.) Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar..

Fresco :: Fresco (a.) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries..

Gypsoplast :: Gypsoplast (n.) A cast taken in plaster of Paris, or in white lime..

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

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

Match :: Match (v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold..

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

Screed :: Screed (n.) A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide..

Cantharidal :: Cantharidal (a.) Of or pertaining to cantharides or made of cantharides; as, cantharidal plaster..

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

Elemi :: Elemi (n.) A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium. A. elemifera yields Mexican elemi; C. commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters..

Parget :: Parget (v. t.) To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses..

Emplaster :: Emplaster (n.) To plaster over; to cover over so as to present a good appearance.

Float :: Float (v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.

Plastering :: Plastering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plaste.

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..

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..

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