emplaster
English
Etymology
From Old French emplastre, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron).
Noun
emplaster (plural emplasters)
- (obsolete, medicine) A plaster.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection 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.
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Verb
emplaster (third-person singular simple present emplasters, present participle emplastering, simple past and past participle emplastered)
- (obsolete, transitive) To plaster.
Anagrams
- palm trees, palm-trees