Word Meanings - SPARADRAP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any adhesive plaster. (more info) 1. A cerecloth.

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• 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
• ADHESIVELY
  In an adhesive manner.
• PLASTERLY
  Resembling plaster of Paris. "Out of gypseous or plasterly ground." Fuller.
• PLASTERING
  1. Same as Plaster, n., 2. 2. The act or process of overlaying with plaster. 3. A covering of plaster; plasterwork.
• CERECLOTH
  A cloth smeared with melted wax, or with some gummy or glutinous matter. Linen, besmeared with gums, in manner of cerecloth. Bacon.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.