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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A plaster.
  2. To cover with or as with a plaster; gloss over; palliate.
  3. To graft or bud.

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete, medicine A plaster.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete See plaster.
  2. v. obsolete To plaster over; to cover over so as to present a good appearance.

Etymologies

  1. From Old French emplastre, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “For an emplaster, take of castorium a dram and a half, of opium half a scruple, mixed both together with a little water of life, make two small plasters thereof, and apply them to the temples.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Some that are very cautious, emplaster the wounds of such over-grown elms with a mixture of clay and horse-dung, bound about them with a wisp of hay or fine moss, and I do not reprove it, provided they take care to temper it well, so as the vermine nestle not in it.”

    Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees

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