plaister

American  

[pley-ster] / ˈpleɪ stər /

noun

1. an archaic variant of plaster.

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plaister British  

/ ˈpleɪstə /

noun

1. plaster

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Example Sentences

San Francisco, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Plaister Cove, the end of the cable, were connected with Promontory Point by telegraph, and the hammer strokes on the last spike were duly transmitted according to arrangement.

From Seattle Times

Patience is a plaister for all sores.

From Project Gutenberg

Fresnoy's ugly face was rendered uglier by a great strip of plaister which marked the place where the hilt of my sword had struck him in our last encounter at Chiz�; and this and the hatred he bore to me gave a peculiar malevolence to his look.

From Project Gutenberg

I asked him to tell me what yerbs I should get to mak' a green plaister for our Jack's sore scaup, and he grinned like a fummard, and tell'd ma to gooa to the divvil, and as th' oud lad was a friend o' mine he would mak' ma my plaisters, with a witness!

From Project Gutenberg

I have cured violent Tooth-achs, of the lower Jaw, by applying a Plaister of Meal, the White of an Egg, Brandy and Mastich, at the Corner of that Jaw, over the Spot where the Pulsation of the Artery may be perceived: and I have also mitigated the most excruciating Pains of the Head, by applying the same Plaister upon the temporal Artery.

From Project Gutenberg