emplaster
A plaster.
Noun
- 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...
Origin
From Old French emplastre, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron).
Forms
Verb
- To plaster.