Crossword-Solution: PLASTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plaster | n. | An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster. |
| Plaster | n. | A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar. |
| Plaster | n. | Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer. |
| Plaster | v. t. | To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore. |
| Plaster | v. t. | To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house. |
| Plaster | v. t. | Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLASTER | anagram | LETSRAP, PALTERS, PLATERS, PRESALT, PSALTER, STAPLER |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PLASTER (5)
This was eaten on the plateless system, which is performed by placing a slice of bread upon the table, the meat flat upon the bread, a mustard plaster upon the meat, and a pinch of salt upon the whole, then cutting them vertically downwards with a large pocket-knife till wood is reached, when the severed lump is impaled on the knife, elevated, and sent the proper way of food.
Everything seemed deadly still, but once something near us, some plaster or broken brickwork, slid down with a rumbling sound.
Its whole visible exterior was ornamented with quaint figures, conceived in the grotesqueness of a Gothic fancy, and drawn or stamped in the glittering plaster, composed of lime, pebbles, and bits of glass, with which the woodwork of the walls was overspread.
The assistant had left the front shop for an instant, when he heard a crash, and hurrying in he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
They were littered with dust and broken stone and plaster, but, otherwise, so perfect was their preservation I could hardly believe that two centuries had rolled by since human eyes were last set upon them.
Quotes with PLASTER (3)
In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us.
But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.
My lack of faith in God is not a dilapidated house. It does not need to be razed to the ground or burned down to cinders. I refuse to be the wounded woman on a crossthat you crucify with your disapproval like nails; I will only be the woman who believes in thunderstormsthe same way lightning loves the tops of trees it strikesevery time it gets tired of being pent up in an unforgiving sky, the only difference is that I believe these are natural weather phenomenons, not God’s b…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 41 times in crossword archives (1953–2023).