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- Plastic - a. - Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
- Plastic - a. - Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
- Plastic - a. - Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
- plastic - n. - a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]
- Plastical - a. - See Plastic.
- Plastically - adv. - In a plastic manner.
- Plasticity - n. - The quality or state of being plastic.
- Plasticity - n. - Plastic force.
- Represent - v. t. - To portray by pictoral or plastic art; to delineate; as, to represent a landscape in a picture, a horse in bronze, and the like.
- Pugging - v. t. - The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.
- Archeus - n. - The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers.
- Aplastic - a. - Not plastic or easily molded.
- Plastically - adv. - In a plastic manner.
- Fictor - n. - An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material.
- Plastic - a. - Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
- Helcoplasty - n. - The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers, especially by a plastic operation.
- Pumice - n. - A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.
- Flashing - n. - The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
- Modeler - n. - One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art.
- Imagination - n. - The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.
- Plastic - a. - Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
- Intrusion - n. - The penetrating of one rock, while in a plastic or metal state, into the cavities of another.
- Albolith - n. - A kind of plastic cement, or artificial stone, consisting chiefly of magnesia and silica; -- called also albolite.
- Cosmoplastic - a. - Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.
- Sculpture - n. - The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.
- Tonic - a. - Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."
- Uranoplasty - n. - The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.
- Plastography - n. - The art of forming figures in any plastic material.
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