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emplasters

emplasters is the plural of emplaster.

Meaning of emplaster

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...

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Questions about emplasters

What is emplasters the plural of?
Emplasters is the plural of emplaster.

Words near emplasters in the dictionary

  1. emplanting
  2. emplants
  3. emplaster
  4. emplastered
  5. emplastering
  6. emplasters
  7. emplastic
  8. emplastics
  9. emplastra
  10. emplastration
  11. emplastron

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