Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover with or as with a plaster; gloss over; palliate.
- To graft or bud.
- noun A plaster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
plaster . - transitive verb obsolete To plaster over; to cover over so as to present a good appearance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, medicine A
plaster .
Etymologies
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From Old French emplastre, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον.
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Examples
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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.
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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 John Evelyn 1663
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