Word Meanings - SCRATCHCOAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.

• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Plasterly
  Resembling plaster of Paris.
• Prickly
  Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Plasterwork
  Plastering used to finish architectural constructions, exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.
• Prickmadam
  A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Plastery
  Of the nature of plaster.
• Prickpunch
  A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Prickshaft
  An arrow.
• Callipee
  See Calipee.

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