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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.
[Cf. OF.
emplastrer
, F.
emplâtrer
. See
Emplaster
,
Noun.
]
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.
[Gr. a plaster.] [See Plaster, which is not used.]

Definition 2024


emplaster

emplaster

English

Noun

emplaster (plural emplasters)

  1. (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.

Verb

emplaster (third-person singular simple present emplasters, present participle emplastering, simple past and past participle emplastered)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To plaster.