plaster splint

[SPLINT.] plaster-stone, s. [GYPSUM.] plas-těr, plais-ter (ai as a), *plāis -těr plays-ter, v . t . [O. Fr. plastrer (Fr. plâtrer ), from plastre =plaster (q. v.).] 1. To cover or overlay with plaster, as the walls or ceilings of a house. "Of all his houses he had abroad in the countrey, he had not one wall plaistered , nor rough cast."-Norta Plutarch , p. 290. 2. To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore. 3. To bedaub; to cover coarsely or thickly; as, to plaster one's face with paint. pine, pit, sïre, sir, marine; gō, pot, plasterer 4. To spread coarsely or thickly. "But hadst thou seen her plaister'd up before, 'Twas so unlike a face it seem'd a sore." Dryden: Juvenal, sat. vi. 5. To cover or overlay roughly with any substance resembling plaster. "He was cast out ir a twige basket or hamper, plastered ouer with lime, in the river."- Udall : Acts vii. 6. To cover over; to hide, to glo . plas-ter-er, *plāis-ter-er, *plays-ter-er, s . [ Eng . plaster ; -er.] 1. One who plasters; one whose trade is to cover walls, ., with plaster. "Thy father was a plasterer." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II ., iv. 2. 2. One who molds or forms figures in plaster. plas-ter-ing, pr . par . , a . & s. [PLASTER, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: I. Literally: 1. The act of covering or overlaying with plaster. 2. A covering or coat of plaster; the plasterwork of a building. II. Fig .: The act of covering over, cloaking, or concealing. "In spight of all our plasterings and dre ings of it, 'twill prove incurable." -South : Sermons , vol. viii., ser. 2. †plas-ter-Ish. *plāis-ter-ish, a . [Eng. plas ter; -ish.] Chalky, cretaceous. "The island gat the name Albion of the saide plaister ish soile."-P. Holland: Camden, p. 24. †plas-ter-lý, *plāis-ter-ly, a . [Eng. plaster ; -ly. Of the nature of plaster; chalky, cretaceous. plas-ter-, a . [Eng. plaster ; -y.] Resembling plaster; of the nature of plaster. plăs-tic, *plăs'-tic-al, *plas-tick, a . [Latin plastic us , from Gr.plastikos fit for molding, skillful in molding, from plastos = formed, molded; pla o = to form, to mold; Fr. plastique ; Sp. & Ital. plastico .] 1. Having the power or property of giving form or fashion to a ma of matter; giving form or shape. 2. Capable of being modeled or molded into various forms, as clay, plaster. "The composition is now of a plastic character." -Scrib ner's Magazine, March, 1878, p. 687. 3. Capable of being molded or bent into any required direction or course; pliable; as, Youth is more plastic than age.