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emplaster

emplaster noun: a plaster.

Noun

emplaster (plural emplasters)

  1. (obsolete) A plaster.
    • 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.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To plaster.

Forms of emplaster

Noun
pluralemplasters
Verb
third-person singular presentemplasters
present participleemplastering
past participleemplastered
pastemplastered

Origin of emplaster

From Old French emplastre, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron).

Questions about emplaster

What does emplaster mean?
Emplaster means a plaster.
What part of speech is emplaster?
Emplaster can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of emplaster?
The plural of emplaster is emplasters.

Words near emplaster in the dictionary

  1. emplaning
  2. emplant
  3. emplanted
  4. emplanting
  5. emplants
  6. emplaster
  7. emplastered
  8. emplastering
  9. emplasters
  10. emplastic
  11. emplastics

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