2CaSO4 2H2O An invaluable mold-making tool for the potter, also used extensively in industry It can be poured or carved into virtually any shape When it is dry it can be used to press clay into or to slipcast with
A mixture of sand, lime and water of a consistency that can be applied to a wall or ceiling with a trowel Various plasters have different uses, such as for patching holes, or for finishing a smooth surface
If you plaster a surface or a place with posters or pictures, you stick a lot of them all over it. They plastered the city with posters condemning her election His room is plastered with pictures of Porsches and Ferraris
paste of lime water and sand or fine marble dust trowelled and smoothed onto a brick or stone wall; dries to a hard lustrous finish
It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc
A mixture of white cement and white marble dust used as an interior finish, which can be tinted, colored or left white; applied to the gunite or shotcrete of a pool or spa
cover conspicuously, as by pasting something on; "The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters"