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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Gypsum or plaster stone.

2. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. Knight.

3. Paint, especially for the face. [Obs.] Drayton.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. Sir T. Herbert. The pargeted ceiling with pendants. R. L. Stevenson.

2. To paint; to cover over. [Obs.]

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To lay on plaster.

2. To paint, as the face. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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