plaster

• adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
• cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
• a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
• coat with plaster
• a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water
• any of several gypsum cements
• a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
• apply a heavy coat to
• affix conspicuously
• apply a plaster cast to
• dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
• 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
• A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses
• Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc
• To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore
• To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house
• Fig.: To smooth over
• Residential area (city, town, village) in Ireland in Donegal

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