paste
/peɪst/ noun B2- One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
- One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
- One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc. · Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive
- A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid.
- A hard lead-containing glass; an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
- The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
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Someone, then, cut out the message with a pair of short-bladed scissors, pasted it with paste—”
This paste in the tin is no doubt the luminous mixture with which the creature was daubed.
I have not time for anybody’s affairs but my own and those of my honorable guests; but I make an agreement with the man who pastes up the papers, and he brings them to me as he would the playbills, that in case any person staying at my hotel should like to witness an execution, he may obtain every requisite information concerning the time and place etc.”
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