- a variation of plaster.
plaister
Americannoun
noun
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When the school-bell cut short our strife, Miss P. gave both of us a plaister; And in a week became the wife Of Horace Nibbs, the writing-master.
From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various
They found clothing for me in which I looked like a marshman, and put more plaister on my face, the better to disguise me.
From The MS. in a Red Box by John Arthur Hamilton
The doctor put a couple o’ stitches in it, and then he made a sorter star with strips o’ stick-jack plaister.
From Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop by Harold Piffard
And seeing that Leonard Fairfield would offer no plaister to Randal Leslie, they made amends for his stinginess by their own prodigality.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
Kattie is a kind of drawing or ripening plaister made in the following manner.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?
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