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Paste   /peɪst/   Listen
noun
Paste  n.  
1.
A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.
2.
Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.
3.
A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.
4.
A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.
5.
A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.
6.
(Min.) The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.
Paste eel (Zool.), the vinegar eel. See under Vinegar.


verb
Paste  v. t.  (past & past part. pasted; pres. part. pasting)  To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.





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"Paste" Quotes from Famous Books



... I looted your house, madame," she said, offering her a small cylindrical pot made of coarse clouded glass, and half filled with a yellowish paste. "I found that inside on the ground floor; I don't know why I ...
— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold
... eaten alone is said, by the natives, to cause dysentery; they never use it in the southern districts without pounding it between two stones and sprinkling over it a few pinches of an earth which they consider extremely good and nutritious; they then pound the mould and root together into a paste, and swallow it as a bonne bouche, the noxious qualities of the plant being ...
— Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2) • George Grey
... Joe, wrenching the club from his hands. "No man ain't goin' to tell Joe Shafto what she kin do. Git out of here!" she raged, advancing threateningly on Hippy. "I'll paste them mules when I want ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods • Jessie Graham Flower
... rocks or walls, where they will generally grow with little trouble. The easiest mode of propagating and getting them to grow on such places is first to make the place fit for their reception, by putting thereon a little loam made with a paste of cow-dung; then chopping the plants in small pieces, and strowing them on the place: if this is done in the spring, the places will be well covered in ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury
... if they are small and can be spread on the paper without touching. Then a new layer of paper, then a new sample, and so on. When the packet has a certain thickness (2 to 3 decimetres at most) it should be pressed between two pieces of paste board by means of cords or girths and a buckle. The pressure should be moderate, enough to prevent the plants from wrinkling, but not enough to change their shapes, or crush their tissue by flattening them too much. The parcels, to dry well, should be placed on ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various


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