Word Meanings - EMPLASTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.

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• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• EMPLASTIC
  Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• GLUTINOUSNESS
  The quality of being glutinous.
• ADHESIVE
  1. Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances. 2. Apt or tending to adhere; clinging. Thomson. Adhesive attraction. See Attraction. -- Adhesive inflammation , that kind of inflammation which terminates in the reunion of divided parts
• GLUTINOUS
  Havig a moist and adhesive or sticky surface, as a leaf or gland. (more info) 1. Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.
• ADHESIVELY
  In an adhesive manner.
• PLASTERLY
  Resembling plaster of Paris. "Out of gypseous or plasterly ground." Fuller.
• APPLICATE
  Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of
• PLASTERING
  1. Same as Plaster, n., 2. 2. The act or process of overlaying with plaster. 3. A covering of plaster; plasterwork.
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• ADHESIVENESS
  Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse. (more info) 1. The quality of sticking or adhering; stickiness; tenacity of union.
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• APPLIEDLY
  By application.
• 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.
• APPLIER
  He who, or that which, applies.
• 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.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• SHINPLASTER
  Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
• ESEMPLASTIC
  Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity. Coleridge.