Word Meanings - BEPLASTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

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• ROUGE
  red. Rouge et noir ( Etym: , a game at cards in which persons play against the owner of the bank; -- so called because the table around which the players sit has certain compartments colored red and black, upon which the stakes are deposited.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• SMEAR DAB
  The sand fluke .
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• SMEARED
  Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth .
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• SMEARCASE
  Cottage cheese.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• COVERTLY
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• COVER
  operire to cover; probably fr. ob towards, over + the root appearing 1. To overspread the surface of with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth. 2. To envelop; to clothe, as with a mantle or cloak. And
• SMEAR
  akin to D. smeren, OHG. smirwen, G. schmieren, Icel. smyrja to 1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. "Smear the sleepy grooms with blood." Shak. 2. To soil in any way;
• COVERING
  Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc. Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7. A covering
• COVERAGE
  The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.
• COVER-SHAME
  Something used to conceal infamy. Dryden.
• PLASTERLY
  Resembling plaster of Paris. "Out of gypseous or plasterly ground." Fuller.
• COVERED
  Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden. Covered way , a corridor or banquette along the top of the counterscarp and covered by an embankment whose slope forms the glacis. It gives the garrisonn an open line of communication around
• COVERSED SINE
  The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BESMEAR
  To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• SCROUGE
  To crowd; to squeeze.
• BESMEARER
  One that besmears.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• BONNET ROUGE
  The red cap adopted by the extremists in the French Revolution, which became a sign of patriotism at that epoch; hence, a revolutionist; a Red Republican.
• DISCOVERABLE
  Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
• DISCOVERY
  1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
• IRRECOVERABLE
  Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.
• DISCOVERER
  1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
• RECOVERANCE
  Recovery.
• SHINPLASTER
  Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.