Word Meanings - EMPLASTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.

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• SALVER
  One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack.
• PLASTERLY
  Resembling plaster of Paris. "Out of gypseous or plasterly ground." Fuller.
• SALVER-SHAPED
  Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.
• PLASTERING
  1. Same as Plaster, n., 2. 2. The act or process of overlaying with plaster. 3. A covering of plaster; plasterwork.
• PLASTERWORK
  Plastering used to finish architectural constructions, exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.
• PLASTERER
  1. One who applies plaster or mortar. "Thy father was a plasterer." Shak. 2. One who makes plaster casts. "The plasterer doth make his figures by addition." Sir H. Wotton.
• PLASTER
  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
• SALVE
  Hail!
• PLASTERY
  Of the nature of plaster. The stone . . . is a poor plastery material. Clough.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• SHINPLASTER
  Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
• QUACKSALVER
  One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. Burton.
• COURT-PLASTER
  Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.
• BEPLASTER
  To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.
• EYESALVE
  Ointment for the eye.