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Webster 1913 Edition
Emplaster
Em-plas′ter
,Noun.
[OF.
emplastre
, F. emplâtre
, L. emplastrum
a plaster or salve, fr. Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to plaster up, daub over; [GREEK] in + [GREEK] to form, mold, apply as a plaster.] See
Plaster
. [Obs.]
Wiseman.
Em-plas′ter
,Verb.
T.
To plaster over; to cover over so as to present a good appearance.
[Obs.]
“Fair as ye his name emplaster.” Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Emplaster
EMPL`ASTER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
emplaster
emplaster
English
Noun
emplaster (plural emplasters)
- (obsolete, medicine) A plaster.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.v:
- Liniments are made of the same matter to the like purpose: emplasters of herbs, flowers, roots, &c. with oyls, and other liquors mixt and boiled together.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.v:
Verb
emplaster (third-person singular simple present emplasters, present participle emplastering, simple past and past participle emplastered)
- (obsolete, transitive) To plaster.