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

White-limed :: White-limed (a.) Whitewashed or plastered with lime.

Stud :: Stud (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed..

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

Floating :: Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.

Opodeldoc :: Opodeldoc (n.) A kind of plaster, said to have been invented by Mindererus, -- used for external injuries..

Shinplaster :: Shinplaster (n.) Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar..

Plaster :: 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..

Parget :: Parget (n.) Gypsum or plaster stone.

Gauge :: Gauge (n.) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.

Darby :: Darby (n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc..

Roughcast :: Roughcast (v. t.) To plaster with a mixture of lime and shells or pebbles; as, to roughcast a building..

Mundificant :: Mundificant (n.) A mundificant ointment or plaster.

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

Stuccoer :: Stucco (v. t.) To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster..

Plasterer :: Plasterer (n.) One who makes plaster casts.

Roughing-in :: Roughing-in (n.) The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it..

Plaister :: Plaister (n.) See Plaster.

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..

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

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