Paste

(past) [pasta; irdarrj, me ; irdaoeiv, to sprinkle]. Any soft, sticky substance, especially a mixture of starch or flour and water. P., Arsenical, a caustic paste containing arsenic. P., Can quoin’s. See Can quoin is Paste. P., London-, a mixture of equal parts of sodium hydrate and slaked lime, moistened with alcohol. P., Vienna-, a mixture of pota ium hydrate and caustic lime moistened with water. Pasteur’s Fluid or P.’s ch562.xhtml l 481