plaister
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The fact is, I hurt my fingers and wanted some diachylum plaister, and I therefore rang the bell of the first surgeon I came to.
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John
The baron, who had attained some knowledge of surgery in the campaign, carefully washed her wounds, closed them with plaister, and dressed the contusions with a very efficacious ointment that he had by him.
From The Grandee by Palacio Valdés, Armando
I never knew such a surprizing thing, it grew better and better every day, and at last was healed without any plaister.
From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Wollstonecraft, Mary
From all these figures the iconoclasts had smitten the hands upraised in prayer, and they have been replaced by plaister hands folded on the bosom.
From Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
At present they have merely a model of plaister upon which the bronze coating is to be wrought, for the whole is to be in bronze with gilt trappings.
From Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) by Stanley, Edward
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