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Floating :: Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.

Fresco :: Fresco (a.) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries..

Fresco :: Fresco (a.) In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner..

Plaister :: Plaister (n.) See Plaster.

Three-coat :: Three-coat (a.) Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat..

Pricking-up :: Pricking-up (n.) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.

Render :: Render (v. t.) To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath..

Fresco :: Fresco (a.) A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

Plaster :: Plaster (v. t.) To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house..

Parget :: Parget (n.) Gypsum or plaster stone.

Match :: Match (v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold..

Emplastration :: Emplastration (n.) The application of a plaster or salve.

Casing :: Casing (n.) The act or process of inclosing in, or covering with, a case or thin substance, as plaster, boards, etc..

Set-fair :: Set-fair (n.) In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface..

Painter :: Painter (n.) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint..

Plaster :: Plaster (n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer..

Rendering :: Rendering (n.) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework.

Layer :: Layer (n.) That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion..

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