noun. A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with fiber added, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.

noun. Plaster of Paris.

noun. A pastelike mixture applied to a part of the body for healing or cosmetic purposes.

noun. An adhesive bandage.

intransitive verb. To cover, coat, or repair with plaster.

intransitive verb. To cover or hide with or as if with a coat of plaster.

intransitive verb. To apply a plaster to.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To cover conspicuously, as with things pasted on; overspread.

intransitive verb. To affix conspicuously, usually with a paste.

intransitive verb. To make smooth by applying a sticky substance.

intransitive verb. To make adhere to another surface.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To inflict heavy damage or injury on.

intransitive verb. To defeat decisively.

intransitive verb. To apply plaster.

noun. In a general sense, calcium sulphate, whether deprived by heat of its water of crystallization or not, as, for instance, the crust of hydrated calcium sulphate which forms on salt-boilers' pans, or natural gypsum used as a fertilizer and known as land-plaster.

To apply a medicative plaster to; cover with a plaster: as, to plaster a wound.

To cover or overlay with plaster, as the walls of a house, partitions, etc.

To bedaub or besmear: as, to plaster the face with powder.

To fill or cover over with or as with plaster; hide; gloss: with up.

To treat with plaster; add gypsum to: as, to plaster vines by dusting them with gypsum in order to prevent rot or mildew of the berries; to plaster wines by adding gypsum in order to neutralize acid or produce other fancied benefits.

noun. In pharmacy, a solid compound intended for external application, adhesive at the temperature of the human body, and requiring to be softened by heat before being spread.

noun. A composition of lime water, and sand, with or without hair for binding, well mixed so as to form a kind of paste, and used for coating walls and partitions of houses.

noun. Calcined gypsum or calcium sulphate, used, when mixed with water, for finishing walls, for molds, ornaments, casts, luting, cement, etc.

noun. Calcined gypsum—that is, gypsum from which the water has been driven off by heat : used in building and in making casts of busts and statues, etc. When diluted with water into a thin paste, plaster of Paris sets rapidly, and at the instant of setting expands or increases in bulk; hence this material becomes valuable for filling cavities, etc., where other earths would shrink.

transitive verb. To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.

transitive verb. To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.

transitive verb. Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.

noun. 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 a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc..

noun. A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.

noun. Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer.

noun. a copy of an object obtained by pouring plaster of Paris mixed with water into a mold.

noun. Anhydrous calcium sulphate, or calcined gypsum, which forms with water a paste which soon sets or hardens, and is used for casts, moldings, etc. The term is loosely applied to any plaster stone or species of gypsum.

noun. a bandage saturated with a paste of plaster of Paris, which on drying forms a perfectly fitting splint.

noun. any species of gypsum. See Gypsum.

noun. A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.

noun. A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.

noun. A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.

noun. A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; plaster cast.

verb. To cover or coat something with plaster, or apply a plaster.

verb. To hide or cover up, as if with plaster.

noun. a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)

verb. apply a heavy coat to

noun. adhesive tape used in dressing wounds

verb. affix conspicuously

noun. a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.

verb. cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on

noun. any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs

verb. coat with plaster

"Sometimes, the term plaster refers exclusively to finishes indoors, especially when gypsum plaster is used."

aconite plaster  adhesive plaster  ammoniac plaster  ammoniac plaster with mercury  antimonial plaster  

court-plaster  gypsum plaster  lath and plaster  plaster and lath  plaster lath  

affix  cover  dress  stick on  

Astor  Castor  Grandmaster  Master  aster  

ash  bandage  brick  canvas  cement  

Ace bandage  Band-Aid  Portland cement  Spackle  adherent  

mortar  

plastered  plastering  plasters