emplaster

English

Etymology

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

Noun

emplaster (plural emplasters)

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

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, transitive) To plaster.

Anagrams

• palm trees, palm-trees