Word Meanings - TRULLIZATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.

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• LAYLAND
  Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount.
• TROWELED
  Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• LAYING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, lays. 2. The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch. 3. The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.
• LAYNER
  A whiplash.
• PLASTERLY
  Resembling plaster of Paris. "Out of gypseous or plasterly ground." Fuller.
• PLASTERING
  1. Same as Plaster, n., 2. 2. The act or process of overlaying with plaster. 3. A covering of plaster; plasterwork.
• 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.
• LAYER
  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. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached
• LAYMAN
  1. One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do. Being a layman, I ought not to have concerned myself with speculations which
• LAYETTE
  The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used.
• LAY
  of Lie, to recline.
• TROWELFUL
  As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel.
• PLASTERER
  1. One who applies plaster or mortar. "Thy father was a plasterer." Shak. 2. One who makes plaster casts. "The plasterer doth make his figures by addition." Sir H. Wotton.
• LAYSHIP
  The condition of being a layman. Milton.
• PLASTER
  An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce
• LAYSTALL
  1. A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited. B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon. 2. A place where milch cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.
• LAY READER
  A layman authorized to read parts of the public service of the church.
• PLASTERY
  Of the nature of plaster. The stone . . . is a poor plastery material. Clough.
• LAY SHAFT; LAYSHAFT
  A secondary shaft, as in a sliding change gear for an automobile; a cam shaft operated by a two-to-one gear in an internal- combustion engine. It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine, as, in some
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• PLAYTE
  See PLEYT
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• OVERLAY
  To put an overlay on. (more info) 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams
• CLAYISH
  Partaking of the nature of clay, or containing particles of it.
• UNLAY
  To untwist; as, to unlay a rope.
• SPLAYFOOT
  A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.
• RELAY
  To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
• CLAYES
  Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments.
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• BALAYEUSE
  A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside.