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• a variation of plaster.

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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plaister

If his son had not promptly torn the living plaister from off his face he must have been suffocated—a fate which actually befell some years previously a man who foolishly went diving alone.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)

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

And although oil of whip be the proper plaister for the cramp of laziness, yet some pity is due to impotent persons.

From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

And then the first verses of the first chapter of James fairly laid a plaister on the wounds of her heart.

From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan

"Some man or other must present wall," and, "let him have some plaister, or some lome, or some rough-cast about him to signify wall."

From Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir