Paste

past, n. A soft composition, as of flour mois- tened with water or milk; dough prepared for piecrust, etc.; a fine kind of gla , used in imitating precious stones; an adhesive cement, made of flour, etc. an elastic confection. — v. To unite, cement, linger or ink, then, boNbox, chair, get. 426 PASTEL 408 or fasten, with paste. [OF.; Sp., and LL. pasta, paste, Gr. paste, a me of food, prop. fern, of pastos, besprinkled, pa e in, to strew, esp. to sprinkle salt.] — Paste'board, n. A stiff board made of sheets of paper pasted together. — Past'y, past'T, a. Like paste. — n. A meat-pie made with paste. [OF. paste, F. pate:} — Pat'ty, pat'ti'. n. A little pie. — Pas'try, pas'tri, n. Articles of food made chiefly of paste, as pies, tarts, cake, etc.