plaister
Americannoun
noun
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His little face brightened, and his mother having once got the cue, the two women kept the little fellow amused, until his plaister had taken effect.
From The Grey Woman and other Tales by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
One of his eyes was closed up, and had a French plaister across it, but the other stared and rolled enough for two.
From Athelstane Ford by Allen Upward
If occasioned by a cut, it will be proper immediately to close the wounded part, so as to exclude the air and prevent its bleeding, and then any common sticking plaister may be applied.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
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
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 Armando Palacio Valdés
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