plaster

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.

2. 2noun

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

3. 3noun

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

4. 4transitive verb

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

5. 5transitive verb

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

6. 6transitive verb

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

7. 7noun

   adhesive tape used in dressing wounds

8. 8noun

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

   "there were cracks in the plaster"

   Synonyms

   plasterwork
9. 9noun

   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.

   Synonyms

   cataplasmpoultice
10. 10noun

    a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings

11. 11noun

    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

12. 12verb

    dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

    Synonyms

    poultice
13. 13verb

    coat with plaster

    "daub the wall"

    Synonyms

    daub
14. 14verb

    apply a heavy coat to

15. 15verb

    apply a plaster cast to

    "plaster the broken arm"

16. 16verb

    affix conspicuously

    "She plastered warnings all over the wall"

17. 17verb

    cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on

    "The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters"

    "She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco"

    Synonyms

    beplaster