pasten.adj.

Brit.

/peɪst/, U.S.

/peɪst/

Forms: Middle English paiste, Middle English–1500s paast, Middle English–1500s 1700s paaste, Middle English–1700s past, Middle English– paste, 1500s payst, 1500s payste, 1500s–1700s paist, 1700s peast; Scottish pre-1700 pais, pre-1700 paist, pre-1700 pase, pre-1700 1700s– paste.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French paste; Latin pasta.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman past, paste paste, dough, pastry and Old French, Middle French paste dough (1174–8; French pâte , †paste ) and its etymon post-classical Latin pasta a small square piece of a medical preparation (c400), dough, paste (from 12th cent. in British sources), soft composition applied to the skin for medicinal purposes (1363 in the source translated in quot. ?a1425 at sense A. 2b) < ancient Greek παστή, recorded in plural, πασταί barley porridge, also Hellenistic Greek παστά (neuter plural), uses as noun of παστός sprinkled < πάσσειν to sprinkle, of unknown origin + -τός, suffix forming verbal adjectives. Compare Old Occitan, Occitan pasta dough (14th–15th cent.), glue (15th cent.), Catalan pasta (14th cent.), Spanish pasta dough (1220–50), Portuguese pasta (1470), Italian pasta paste (1310), dough (1344), glue (a1419 or earlier).Earlier currency is perhaps implied by the surname Henricus Paste (1202), although it is unclear whether this is to be interpreted as reflecting the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word. With sense A. 1b compare Middle French paste de roy denoting a kind of confectionery (beginning of the 15th cent. or earlier). In sense A. 1c after Italian pasta pasta n.¹ In sense A. 2c after Chinese jiàng . With sense A. 7 compare Italian pasta (15th cent. in this sense; 1539 in la miglior pasta d'uomo ), Middle French paste (1554 in gens de bonne paste , 16th cent. in de mesme paste made of the same stuff; French pâte ). In sense A. 8 after Italian pasta (1612 or earlier in this sense).

A. n.

I. A mixture of ingredients or components.

1. Cookery.

a. = pastry n. 1a. Now chiefly North American.Recorded earliest in compounds.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun]

paste1288

breadc1400

pastry1442

1288–9 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisdict. Norwich (1892) 28 (MED) Johanne le Pastemakere..vendidit Carnes quas Judei vocant trefa.

1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 79 Make a þynne paast of dow, & make þerof as it were ryngis. Tak & fry hem in oyle de olyue.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 447 The levein of the bred Which soureth all the past.

?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Make a paiste of pured flour knodden with faire water, sugur, saffron, and salt.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Liii^v Mixtyng water with floure and werkyng it in to paste.

1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Cor. v. 6 A litle leauen corrupteth the whole paste.

a1655 T. T. de Mayerne Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus (1658) xxi. 24 Making them [sc. mince pies] in a paste, or dough, very thin.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. ii. 29 I ground and beat them [sc. oats] between two Stones, then took Water, and made them into a Paste or Cake, which I toasted at the Fire, and eat warm with Milk.

a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 187 Make the flour and butter into a pretty stiff paste..then raise it for the pastry.

1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper v. 125 To make crisp Paste for Tarts.

1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 72 A paste made of flour and water, and fried, like fritters, in lard.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 43 Can she make your real flecky paste, as melts in your mouth, and lies all up like a puff?

1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxvii. 613 Common Paste for Family Pies... 1¹/ ₄ lb. of flour, ¹/ ₂ lb. of butter, rather more than ¹/ ₂ pint of water.

1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island iii. 56 Come on, alanna, an make the paste for the pie.

1948 Lady Sysonby Cook Bk. (rev. ed.) 144 Wrap some peeled fresh apricots each in a square of the paste... Drop the dumplings into..boiling water.

2000 J. Cummings World Food: Thailand 41 The overwhelming popularity of kũaytĩaw [sc. noodles], made by mixing pure rice flour with water to form a paste which is then steamed to form wide, flat sheets.

b. A soft, sweet mixture made from powdered or ground ingredients and liquid. Earliest in † paste royal n. (also paste real, paste rial) Obsolete a confection of sugar and spices.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > paste confections

pastya1398

paste royal?c1425

marchpane1556

marzipan1583

paste1591

paste of Genoa1615

almond paste1622

jemello1688

1389–90 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 596 (MED) In 3 Coffins de pastreall.

?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 455 A half pounde of past roiale.

1591 in J. Lyly Wks. (1902) I. 449 Preserues,..iellies,..marmelats, pasts, comfits, of all sorts.

a1651 E. Grey True Gentlewomans Delight (1653) sig. C7 To make paste Royal in Spice. Take Sugar..four ounces, very finely beaten and searced, and put into it an ounce of Cinnamon, and Ginger, and a grain of Musk, and so beat it into paste, with a little Gum-Dragon.

1662 in Statutes at Large, Ireland (1765) II. 461 Past of Jean, the pound 7s. 6d.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 83/1 Jemelloes is a Paste made like Butter, of fine Sugar, Yolks of Eggs, Musk, Carraway seeds [etc.].

a1700 Receipts of Pastery in Tollemache Bk. of Secrets (2001) 233 To make paste Riall, or marmelade of any of these friutes.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 635 Making marmalades and perfumed pastes, which exceed those of Genoa.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 277/2 The term paste is applied to the inspissated juice of liquorice, and some other vegetables.

1919 H. Walpole Secret City iii. viii. 370 On the table was the paskha, a sweet paste made of eggs and cream, curds and sugar.

1983 P. J. Sicard et al. Devel. Sweeteners—2 i. 17 Lozenges are normally produced from a base paste composed of very fine sugar bound together with gums.

1999 L. Mason Sweets & Sweet Shops 10 Apothecaries and confectioners both used sugar paste.

c. Pasta. Cf. Italian paste n. at Italian adj. and n. Special uses 2. Now rare.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pasta > [noun]

paste1673

pasta1830

Italian paste1845

pasta1865

pasta basica1981

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 405 Paste made into strings..(which if greater they call Macaroni, if lesser Vermicelli) they cut in pieces and put in their pots as we do oat-meal.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Macaron, the name of a sort of vermicelli, a paste made of flour and water, and formed into the shape of the barrel of a quill, or the guts of small fowls.

1843 Civilian & Galveston (Texas) City Gaz. 5 Apr. 1/2 2 boxes ass'd Italian Pastes.

1861 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 9 129/1 The manufacture of ‘paste’ (or vermicelli, as it is called in England) continues to be one of the most flourishing trades in Genoa.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 544/2 Macaroni... The same substance in different forms is also known as vermicelli, pasta or Italian pastes, spaghetti, taglioni, fanti, etc.

a. gen. Any moist but fairly stiff mixture, typically made from a powder and liquid.

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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [noun] > viscous substance

paste1390

gummosityc1400

gleimc1440

glaira1529

viscosity1540

plaster1588

emplastic1597

batter1601

starcha1627

mucilage1639

viscus1643

grume1718

syrup1838

sticky1851

goo1903

gloop1927

goop1930

glop1945

ick1947

gunge1969

the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [noun] > plasticity > plastic substance

paste1390

dough1558

conspersion1607

plastic1803

Melmac1941

1390–1 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisdict. Norwich (1892) 70 (MED) Johannes Wake, lyster, assuetus est iactare cineres, paste, et alia..in Regia Ripa.

a1475 Recipe Painting in Archæol. Jrnl. (1844) 1 155 (MED) For to make fyn azure withoute past.

1521 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. I. f. 41, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Paste Will Wilson..is ordanit that & he or ony of his seruands in his werk hous cast wad paist in the burn or dam to pay xl s. to our lady werk.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xx. 383 An idoll made of paste of wheate and mays mingled with hony.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Impastation A Work of Masonry, made of Stuc, or Stone beaten and wrought up in manner of a Paste.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 92 The egg is involved in a sort of paste, which serves at once for the young animal's protection and nourishment.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 30 Forming corrosive muriate of mercury into a paste with water.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 631 A species of rapid crystallization ensues, and the thin paste soon acquires a solid consistence.

1991 Artist Nov. 15/2 Put one part of powdered gum tragacanth into a jar, and wet with alcohol to form a paste.

b. A soft composition applied to the skin (or, formerly, taken internally) for medicinal purposes; (also, in later use) a substance used similarly for cosmetic purposes.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion

paste?a1425

pomatum1562

reparation1579

pomade1598

lustrification1631

butter?1762

war-paint1869

toiletry1917

face1923

make-up1932

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > paste (external)

paste?a1425

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > paste (external) > paste (internal)

paste1842

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 90 (MED) Be it cautarized wiþ rounde claualez cauteriez..as seiþ Alcotaym, or wiþ past as Jesus.

?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 170 (MED) Tak þe mele of þis lyppyne and þe jous of wyrmwod and make a past and bake it and ete it.

a1500 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Wellcome) f. 24 (MED) Þou shalt make a past [L. pultes] of x partes of water and of oyle and flour of whet and ley it vpon þe postume.

1765 O. Goldsmith Ess. xxvi. 233 In vain she tries her pastes and creams, To smooth her skin, or hide its seams.

1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Paste, a compound medicine like the pastil, but less consistent, flexible, less saccharine, and more mucilaginous.

1851 T. B. Curling Observ. Dis. Rectum iv. 30 The confection of black pepper..known as Ward's Paste..in great repute as a remedy for piles.

1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. No. 2097. 39 A variety of pastes are also useful in this stage [of eczema].

2000 A. Dalby Dangerous Tastes 29 Sandalwood paste is applied to alleviate burning of the skin.

c. The mixture of clay, water, etc., from which porcelain and other ceramics are made.Distinguished between a hard variety which produces a dense, completely vitrified porcelain, and a soft variety which requires less heat to fuse and produces a less glazed porcelain.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > paste for making porcelain

petuntse1728

paste1735

body1774

frit1791

service paste1839

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Porcelain With the Sediment, collected at bottom in form of a Paste, [they] fill a kind of Moulds.]

1735 Dict. Polygraph. at China To make your paste of this powder, first dissolve an ounce of very white gum arabic in a pail of water.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Porcelain The china-ware being made of a paste, part of which is made of a substance in itself scarce possible to be vitrified.

1848 H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. 6 The celebrated Porcelain of Dresden, or more properly, Meissen,..is the most choice..of German fabrication. The material is termed ‘hard paste’.

1848 H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. 8 Chantilly Porcelain is a fine kind of ‘soft paste’.

1879 J. J. Young Ceramic Art 55 There is..very little difference in hardness between the hard-paste and the soft-paste.

1940 B. Leach Potter's Bk. iii. 43 Western potters..have travelled further and further away from a natural conception of clay towards an ideal of over-refined mixtures which are aptly called pastes.

1990 BM Mag. (Brit. Museum Soc.) Spring 46/1 The Chelsea soft paste porcelain vase illustrated in the Summer issue is identified as showing the death of Cleopatra.

2000 M. Sargeant Royal Crown Derby 4 Derby..used a soft paste imitation porcelain and a thick and glassy glaze.

a. A mixture of flour and water (sometimes with added starch) used as an adhesive, esp. for paper, and as a sealant.

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture > means of preventing passage of gas or liquid > substance

pastea1400

gasketing1838

sealant1945

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > adhesive > [noun] > flour-based

paste1530

batter1624

flour-paste1806

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 278 (MED) Take a litil hare..& do him in an erþen vessel..& stoppe it faste..wiþ good lute or wiþ past.

?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 31 (MED) Fylle a potte of drestys of good ale..and stoppe it well abowyn with paste.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 250/2 Paast or glewe, cole.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 393 The common past that wee vse, made with the finest floure of wheat.

1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 46 Small bits of Paper sticking with some of the Past with w^ch 'twas fix'd.

1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. No. 29. 47 Brush paste, not gum, lightly over the back.

1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Home Handicrafts 39 If the paste is not to be used for gilt papers.., add 2 oz. of powdered alum.

1988 Which? Nov. 518/2 Hang new wallpaper using a paste which incorporates a fungicide.

1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) ii. 93/2 Standard flock papers are difficult to hang, as contact with paste will ruin the pile.

†b. The material of which pasteboards (pasteboard n. 3) are made. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > pasteboard

paste1549

paperboard1552

pasteboard1562

pasted paper1570

board1660

Bristol-board1809

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) (colophon) Thesame bounde in paste or in boordes.

1562 in Comm. Ld. Grey of Wilton (1847) 59 A schoocheon of armes wrowght on payste.

1607 T. Bodley Let. (1926) 171 If yow cause it to be bound in past, I will pay for the binding.

4. Angling. A usually soft mixture used as bait in coarse fishing.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > materials for

bait1496

paste1653

greaves1740

mackerel bait1866

1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 9 Gentles, Paste or Cadice, which we call Cod-bait.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler viii. 169 The Carp bites either at wormes or at Paste .

1704 (title) The compleat fisher..being a clear..way of taking all sorts of fresh-water fish with the worm, fly, paste, and other baits.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 5 Oct. 9/3 Salmon-roe is his favourite and usual lure, and with this bait—the ‘paste’ he calls it—he works sad havoc.

1956 People 13 May 12/6 He reckons that morning and evening are the best times for rod-benders, using bread flake and paste, on a 16- or 18-hook, for roach.

1997 J. Wilson Coarse Fishing Method Man. (1998) 138/1 Soft baits, such as breadflake or pastes, are quite liable to disintegrate before reaching the tench or carp's throat teeth.

5. A spreadable edible mixture of seasoned ground meat, fish, vegetables, etc.; a pâté, a purée. Frequently as the second element in compounds.bean, fish, tomato paste, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > spread

paste1817

spread1866

fish paste1920

cheese spread1921

sandwich spreadc1938

Marmite1966

the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > fish paste

alec?1527

caviar1591

bottarga1598

anchovy butter1806

paste1817

tamarind-fish1858

beluga1883

taramosalata1910

fish paste1920

sevruga1959

surimi1973

1817 W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle (1823) 320 [Receipt for making] Anchovy Paste or le Beurre d'Anchois.

1855 A. H. Hassall Food & its Adulterations 505 One of the samples of bloater paste was adulterated..with starch or flour.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 88/2 The principal parts of the cow are eaten raw.., the remainder being cut into small pieces and cooked with the favourite sauce of butter and red pepper paste.

1981 Cook's Mag. Nov. 46/1 Dr. Robert Baker and his colleagues extract a paste from those seafood parts that are normally discarded.

2001 Observer 28 Oct. (Life Suppl.) 80/3 White miso is made from a fermented paste of soybeans and rice or barley.

II. Extended uses.

6. [Perhaps an alteration of Middle French passe part of a woman's headdress shielding the face (a1486; French passe).] An ornamental headdress made from pasteboard and worn by women. Now historical and rare.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > other

dorlot1340

horn1340

vitremytec1386

templesc1430

bycocket1464

burlet1490

knapscall1498

shapion1504

shaffron1511

paste1527

attire1530

faille1530

muzzle1542

corneta1547

abacot1548

wase1548

wrapper1548

tiring1552

basket1555

bilimenta1556

Paris head1561

shadow1578

head-roll1583

mitre1585

whitehead1588

crispa1592

ship-tire1602

oreillet1603

scoffion1604

coif1617

aigrette1631

egreta1645

drail1647

topknotc1686

slop1688

Burgundy1701

bandore1708

fly-cap1753

capriole1756

lappet-head1761

fly1773

turban1776

pouf1788

knapscapa1802

chip1804

toque1817

bonnet1837

casquette1840

war bonnet1845

taj1851

pugree1859

kennel1896

roach1910

Deely bobber1982

1527 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1872) ii. 1606 Hire of a serkelet and a rich paste, with the attire thereto,..4s.

1542 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 5 in Statutes of Realm (1817) III. 831 Every other..person..whos Wiff shall were any Frenche hood or bonett of Velvett, with any habiliment past or egge of golde perle or stone.

1592 R. Greene Vision sig. D3 The Bride..was very finelie dizond in a little Cappe, and a faire paste.

1853 D. Rock Church of our Fathers IV. xii. 174 The bride, when a maiden, wore her hair flowing..and nothing but a wreath of jewels, called a ‘paste’, or flowers, about her head.

1939 M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 108/2 Paste, woman's headdress of 16th century, made of two pieces of stiffened material meeting at center of forehead; worn under hood; adorned with jewels and other decoration.

†7. figurative. The material of which a person is regarded as made, seen as an indication of character or personality. Cf. mettle n. 1, stuff n.¹ 3b. Obsolete.

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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > [noun]

loamc725

flesh and fellc1000

fleshtimbera1225

flesh and blooda1340

powderc1350

substancec1350

claya1400

paste1645

corporeity1647

muscle1819

tissue1834

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xliii. 87 The Inhabitants of that Town [sc. Geneva], me thinks, are made of another past.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Ded. sig. B^v Others were more sweet, and affable; made of a more pliant Past.

1863 M. Arnold in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 244 To us..with the German paste in our composition.

1874 tr. H. de Balzac Droll Stories ii. 256 The Marchesa..consented..for the pleasure of knowing of what paste God made kings.

8. Heavy, very clear flint glass used for making imitation gems; an imitation gem or (collectively) imitation gems made of this.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > artificial stone > [noun]

jewel1613

paste1662

philosophers' stone1879

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > artificial stone > [noun] > material of

paste1662

strass1809

1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass v. xcii. 143 This past imitates all Jewels and colours, and hath a wonderful shining and lustre, And in hardness too it imitates the jewels.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 399 That Paste with which they make counterfit Jewells.

1782 J. Byres Let. 13 Oct. in I. Jenkins & K. Sloan Vases & Volcanoes (1996) 188/1 Sir William Hamilton has got..two curious rings, the one a Hercules playing the lyre on a fine jacinth, the other an ancient paste about a third of an inch square, on which is a Syren.

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. i. 2 The diamonds went to the jeweller's, and Lady Frances wore paste.

1889 Harper's Mag. July 262/2 An expert knowledge has become widely disseminated which easily detects the paste from the real jewel.

1948 R. M. Pearl Pop. Gemmology vii. 246 Fine glass imitations called paste became so popular in Europe that they were a fad among the wealthy.

1991 ‘E. Anthony’ Relic (1992) (BNC) 127 Shops and dealers who specialized in old paste, in decorative objects, phoney icons and faked religious relics.

9. Geology. The matrix of a rock, esp. a conglomerate. Now rare.

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1796 A. Aikin Jrnl. 1 Aug. in Tour N. Wales (1797) 66 The mica is..distributed through the felspar, quartz, and paste, indiscriminately.

1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) A. 187 379 At the top of this layer, the paste in which the fragments are embedded becomes highly ferruginous.

1930 Geogr. Rev. 20 453 These constituents are embedded in a thick paste or matrix of distintegrated shale and sandstone rocks.

1976 Geogr. Jrnl. 142 407 In places, adjacent blocks are separated by serpentinite paste, or by a matrix of rock flour.

B. adj.

Made of paste (sense A. 8); adorned with a gem or gems of paste.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > artificial stone > [adjective] > made or covered with

paste1755

strass1897

rhinestoned1943

1755 Pennsylvania Gaz. 18 Sept. 4/2 Just imported..and to be sold at the lowest prices..fine pearl, paste and jett necklaces.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 809 Tho' fiction out may trick her, And in paste gems and frippery deck her.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 28 High-heeled shoes..with paste or diamond buckles.

1867 W. G. Deeley in Rep. Artisans Visit Paris Universal Exhib. ii. 46 Men..have generally served their time with imitation diamond setters or ‘paste’ workers.

1973 N. Bawden Carrie's War x. 109 Glittery junk, paste copies of real stones.

1996 L. O'Keeffe Shoes iii. 175 The spun-gold ‘Topkapi’, gleaming with paste gems, is an ode to Turkish opulence.

Compounds

C1.

paste bowl n.

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1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 394/1 Tools for small work..paste-bowl.

2001 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 25 Mar. a2 In the midst of San Francisco's high-tech economy is an information business whose main tools are razor cutters and paste bowls.

paste brush n.

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1764 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 129 One peast brush.

1803 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1947) VIII. 138 Here my friend, take the paste-brush & Stick a piece of your three color'd Flag over them.

1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) xi. 500/5 (heading) Paste brush. Use either a wide wall brush or a short-pile roller to apply paste to the back of wallcoverings.

† paste-impression n. Obsolete

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1824 J. Galt Quadr. in Rothelan III. 187 I..showed the paste-impression of the seal.

paste pot n.

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1835 New Eng. Mag. June 488 Such a book as any clever school-boy, with paste-pot and scissors, could prepare.

1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power ix. 150 It was a world of shirt-sleeve scriveners, paste pots, pneumatic tubes, and olive drab office machinery.

C2.

paste-blacking n. now historical a type of polish.

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1834 Boston Ann. Advertiser 12 in Stimpson's Boston Directory Bell's Paste Blacking Warehouse, 5 Fanenil Hall.

1884 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 16 103 A soft, deep, black fetid mud..nearly approaching in appearance to paste blacking.

1987 Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. That warehouse, and his work there, covering the tops of paste-blacking, never left his [sc. Dickens'] memory.

paste bodied adj. [ < paste n. + bodied adj., after Chinese jiàng tāi < jiàng paste + tāi embryo (with reference to the pre-fired state of the ceramic)] (of Chinese porcelain or other ceramics) made of a fine white clay (cf. sense A. 2c).

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > porcelain > types of porcelain

hard1776

Nantgarw1820

reticulated1881

grand feu1888

high-fusing1893

paste bodied1915

1915 R. L. Hobson Chinese Pottery & Porcelain II. ix. 141 Steatitic porcelain,..with the body..composed of hua shih..is light to handle, and opaque... It is variously named by the Chinese sha-t'ai (sand bodied) and chiang-t'ai (paste bodied).

1964 M. Medley Handbk. Chinese Art 63/1 Chiang-t'ai, ‘paste bodied’ wares made from a fine-grained white firing clay, often miscalled ‘soft paste’.

1997 Jrnl. Field Archaeol. 24 233 The production of glazed fritware (artificial paste bodied) ceramics in medieval Syria.

paste cutter n. now rare a utensil for cutting pastry into shapes; a pastry cutter.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > pastry cutter

jagging-iron1598

runner1688

twitcher1688

paste cutter1845

cookie cutter1864

jagger1864

pastry cutter1869

cookie press1919

1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery i. 5 Divide the bread into dice, or cut it with a deep paste-cutter into any other form.

1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita II. xviii. 84 I sold a box of paste-cutters at one and nine.

1997 Sunday Oklahoman (Nexis) 24 Aug. (Accent section) 3 Cut it in small round pieces with a paste cutter, either plain or scalloped.

paste eel n. now historical a microscopic nematode worm, as found in fermented flour paste.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Anguillulidae > member of genus Angillula

eel1746

paste eel1750

vinegar-eel1836

vinegar worm1896

1750 Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 631 Paste-Eels: These Animals, [we]..had the Pleasure to observe were viviparous.

1857 E. C. Otté tr. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau Rambles Naturalist I. 282 Certain Paste-eels which belong to the Helminthes.

1985 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 46 68 Needham suggested that one could account in a similar manner for the origins of paste eels from the vegetation of flour and water.

pastefitter n. now rare a person who pastes together the parts of the uppers of boots before they are stitched together by machine.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > one who joins

closer1724

pastefitter1876

slugger1911

1876 Boot & Shoe Trades Chron. 1 Sept. 157/2 Wanted best Paste Fitter (Female).

1883 Birmingham Daily Post 11 Oct. Boot Trade.—Wanted, an experienced Pastefitter for General Men's Work.

1927 in R.A. Salaman Dict. Leather-working Tools (1986) 66 Closer's or Paste Fitter's pattern, forged steel, hardened and tempered, bright all over.

† paste-god n. Obsolete an idol made of paste.Apparently an isolated use.

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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > made of paste

paste-god1626

1626 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) Table, sig. Yyyy4^v Paste-god of the Mexicans [cf. viii. xiii. 880 The Religious Virgins or Nuns mingled a quantity of Beets with rosted Maiz, and moulded it with Hony, making an Image of that paste].

pastegrain n. Bookbinding a material made from split sheepskin with a coating of paste or glue to harden it and improve the grain; (also occasionally) an inferior kind of morocco leather.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > leather

roan1383

Turkey leather1655

sheep1705

Turkey1715

Russia1724

rough calf1730

law1738

mottled calf1857

pastegrain1880

Rutland1894

Cambridge calf1895

Niger morocco1898

Niger1946

1880 Bookseller 3 May 471 Cruden's Concordance..in limp Paste-grain and Morocco.

1923 H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery 59 Pastegrain—Also abbreviated to P.G., but more correctly specified as pastegrain roan. Comprises the thin grain side of a split sheepskin, mechanically grained with a cracked or fissured pattern and stiffened slightly by pasting on the back... In the fancy trade P.G. roan is elaborately but erroneously described as French morocco.

2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 19 Jan. 6 Lightweight paper, choice of pastegrain or calfskin leather covers.

† paste-horn n. Obsolete a cow's horn used as a receptacle for paste.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > other leather-working equipment

scoring iron1688

paste-horn1834

dresser1853

pricker1858

stitch-wheel1875

try-stick1888

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. i, in Fraser's Mag. June 664/2 Working on tanned hides, amid pincers, paste-horns, rosin, swine-bristles.

1880 D. N. Johnson Sketches of Lynn 31 The following tools and appliances were regarded as essential [to the shoemaker]..tax, wax, a piece of sponge, paste-horn, bottles for blacking [etc.].

† pastehouse n. Obsolete a building where pastry is made.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > place where pastry made or sold

pastehouse1471

pastry?a1527

pastry shop1656

pasticceria1921

1471–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 94 (MED) Pro nova construccione unius Pastehouse juxta ostium coquine.

paste job n. North American colloquial something that has been assembled or repaired quickly or haphazardly, esp. from parts of something else; a pastiche; cf. scissors-and-paste adj. at scissors n. and int. Phrases 1b.

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1936 Metronome Feb. 61/2 Paste job, doctoring a stock. [Cf. Stock, the publishers arrangement.]

1949 B. Wolfe in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 537 He was only recording the tottering racial myth of the post-bellum South, doing a paste job on its fissioning false face.

2001 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 2 Feb. b1 Their solution has nothing to do with preservation... It's re-creation. It's a paste job.

† paste-kettle n. Obsolete a kettle for boiling paste.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessel in which liquid is boiled > [noun] > vessel for heating oil, size, etc. > specific

pitch pot1295

pitch kettle1420

glue-pot1483

paste-kettle1825

1825 Sporting Mag. 17 36 A somewhat truant disposition..coupled him to a paste-kettle.

paste meat n. †(a) pastry (obsolete); (b) ground meat.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] > article(s) made of

bakemeatc1405

pastry1526

baked meat?1560

pastry work1565

paste meat1597

patisserie1784

tabnab1933

1597–8 Househ. Bks. James VI & Anne 30 Apr. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1983) V. 350/2 The keipar of the palace pais meitt.

1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario D ij These past meates would..be yellow with Saffron.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Rafioli A kind of little paste-meates in fashion of little pasties, rauiols.

1987 Japan Econ. Jrnl. (Nexis) 10 Apr. 18 The bones of porkers or beef cattle are crushed into powder to use again as paste meat.

paste-pin n. now English regional (northern) (rare) = paste roller n.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > rolling-pin

rollera1425

rolling pin1563

paste roller1648

paste-pin1752

pin1822

1752 E. Moxon Eng. Housewifery (new ed.) 124 With a paste-pin or thible stir in your flour to the butter.

1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper v. 126 Roll it up tight, then with your Paste Pin roll it out again.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 170 Paste-pin, a rolling pin for pastry.

† paste-point n. Obsolete Printing a very fine, sharp point (see quot. 1888).

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > tympan > point

point1683

paste-point1825

1825 T. C. Hansard Typographia 912 The blocks being..inked.., and united..by means of those sheet-anchors of pressmanship called points, three or even four of which are fixed (by what a printer calls paste-points) upon the tympans, so as to act upon the margins of the print.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 97 Paste-points, very fine points—usually drawing-pins—used for very closely registered work on a hand-press.

paste pudding n. (a) a bland or simple thing; (b) literal a pudding made with pastry or paste.

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1908 Daily Chron. 14 Mar. 3/2 A sort of literary paste-pudding with an occasional plum to whet the reader's appetite.

1994 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 12 Nov. 4 b If playing Louisville instead of Notre Dame or Florida State doesn't sound like paste pudding, the Aggies get to repeat the experience next week.

1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Jan. ss3 Seasonal desserts include red bean paste pudding shaped like a fish.

† paste-rock n. Geology Obsolete a band of shaly rock occurring in the Wenlock formation in Wales.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > shale > others

till1672

bass1686

bat1686

blue metal1699

scallop slate1711

black shale1730

shale-shiver1794

shale1825

till-stonec1830

Wenlock shale1834

famp1836

Boghead1858

oil shale1866

paper shale1874

symon1881

paste-rock1882

slasto1953

1866 J. W. Salter in A. C. Ramsay Geol. N. Wales 275 A pale-coloured slate, which, when collecting with Professor Sedgwick, we used to term ‘pasty rock’,..might well be a portion of the Lower Llandovery series.]

1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 676 These rocks, termed the ‘paste-rock’ by Sedgwick, have an extreme thickness of 1000 to 1500 feet.

1885 Lyell's Elem. Geol. (ed. 4) xxvii. 431 A..set of beds of fine light grey or blue shales, termed ‘paste-rock’, which overlie the Upper Llandovery strata.

paste roller n. now historical a rolling pin for pastry.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > rolling-pin

rollera1425

rolling pin1563

paste roller1648

paste-pin1752

pin1822

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Rol-stock, a Past-roler to make Pyes with.

1767 N.Y. Jrnl. 6 Aug. [List of hardwood items] Drum sticks and walking stick heads, paste rollers, round rulers and sugar hammers, [etc.].

1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery ii. 81 Plaice is..rendered less watery by beating it gently with a paste-roller before it is cooked.

1995 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 29 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 59 Although Eliza Acton in 1845 refers to the implement as a paste roller, a few years later Mrs Beeton, characteristically, calls a rolling pin a rolling pin.

paste royal n. see sense A. 1b.

paste water n. = paste wash n.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > paste, etc.

scutchin1818

assiette1869

paste water1875

paste wash1880

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 424 [Bookbinding] The leather..is..softened by..the application of paste-water to make it pliable.

1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding 116 The non-porous leathers need only be washed with thin paste water or vinegar.

1982 M. T. Roberts & D. Etherington Bookbinding & Conservation Bks. 193/3 Paste water, paste that has been thinned down to the consistency of milk.

† paste-wife n. Obsolete a woman who makes and sells the ornamental headdresses called ‘pastes’ (cf. sense A. 6) and other adornments for women.

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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns > woman

purpuressc1384

purpurarec1425

silk-womanc1440

paste-wife1550

rag woman1653

merceress1840

draperess1854

linendraperess1868

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making other items of clothing > one who makes other items of clothing

wimpler1260

paltock-maker1376

wimplester1379

point-maker1405

girdler1428

silk-maid1474

pointer1500

middlemana1525

jack-maker1541

paste-wife1550

silkman1553

body-maker1573

linen-armourer1603

bodice-maker1672

costumier1798

costumer1830

costumist1842

rober1852

stock-maker1858

tie-maker1901

1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Dviii Her mydle braced in as smal as a wande..some b[u]y wastes of wyre at the paste wyfes hande.

1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xi. f. 320 Pasted paper, such as pastwiues make womens pastes of.

Derivatives

ˈpaste-like adj. resembling paste in consistency, texture, or appearance.

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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 223 The larvæ..cast from their anus three or four masses of a soft and paste-like matter.

1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage ix. 99 He now sprang to his feet and, going closer, gazed upon the pastelike face.

1989 Bon Appetit Sept. 82/2 Mix using on/off turns or mash with fork to pastelike consistency; do not overwork.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pastev.

Brit.

/peɪst/, U.S.

/peɪst/

Forms: late Middle English– paste, 1600s past; English regional (midlands) (in sense 4a) 1800s– paast.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: paste n.

Etymology: < paste n. Compare pasted adj.

†1.

a. transitive. To make into a paste by pounding or grinding; to incorporate with or into a paste, as a dry ingredient in cooking. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > to form a paste

mouldc1390

temperc1400

paste?a1425

?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 185 (MED) Pouder hem and paste hem wiþ water of rosen.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 637 Þe akþe of þe ȝerde is lissed with þe cromme of brede pastede [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. stamped; L. pistata] with þe whites of ayren and oyle of chesbolle.

b. transitive. To incorporate with or into a paste, as a colour in textile printing. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > dye [verb (transitive)] > make dye

age1830

paste1862

1862 C. O'Neill Dict. Calico Printing at Resists Resist compositions intended for this latter purpose are usually called pastes, and the colour so preserved is said to be ‘pasted’.

a. transitive. To cause to adhere by means of paste; to stick or fasten with paste. Frequently with down, together, up, etc.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bind [verb (transitive)] > line cover with end-paper or fly-leaves

paste1561

paper1875

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with other materials > work with other materials [verb (transitive)] > fix or fasten with adhesive

glue13..

lute1489

paste1561

gum1592

starch1602

solution1891

seccotine1903

Scotch-tape1947

tape1956

sellotape1960

epoxy1974

1561–2 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 142 For pastinge y^e table of the x commandementes ijd.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. F2 Such as paste vp their papers on euery post.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 80 With Parchment pasted or glewed upon them.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 369 Here they still past up their drolling Lampoons, & scurrilous Papers.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 136 Several pieces of Cloth pasted together.

1706 Boston News-let. 27 Jan. 2/1 The Sheriffs of the Several County's..are Commanded to cause this Proclamation to be forthwith Published and Pasted up.

1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 6 The Ballads pasted on the Wall.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 342 She examines the sheet almanac pasted up behind the door to see what holiday it might be.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. v. 130 The feathers, pasted on a fine cotton web, were wrought into dresses.

1901 D. Cockerell Bookbinding xvii. 254 To paste down end papers, the book is placed on the block with the board open.

1962 Publishers' Weekly 12 Mar. 19 Maxwell Volker..creates poetry by cutting out single words or long strips from newspapers and magazines which he haphazardly pastes together.

1995 Church Times 23 June 5/2 I recall him methodically pasting up copy at his desk, or sticking on bromides in the case-room.

b. transitive. To cause to adhere closely or firmly, as if by pasting.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] > adhere to > cause to adhere

stickc1425

clam1598

cling1606

plaster1623

beglue1658

adhere1845

clitch1863

paste1863

key1923

1863 Year-bk. Med. 1862 (New Sydenham Soc.) 387 General diffuse peritonitis, many coils of intestine being pasted together by adherent lymph.

1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 425 A perfect tempest of wind, which..drove the Era against the western bank, where she remained hopelessly pasted.

1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan xiv. 218 Jim Doyle stood by the kitchen sink, a cigar pasted in his round, jolly face.

1986 New Yorker 10 Mar. 72/2 They paste together different perceptions of the world by visiting each other's areas.

c. transitive. Computing. To insert (text or graphics) into a document by copying it from elsewhere in a single operation. Cf. cut v. Additions.

ΚΠ

1975 Business Week 30 June 82 Hit a button called ‘cut’, and the word or paragraph disappears. Punch another button labeled ‘paste’ and the paragraph or word is inserted into the text where the pointer is located.

1983 Byte Feb. 33/2 My next step is to ‘tear off’ a sheet of Lisa Calc ‘paper’ and paste my ‘Annual Sales’ bar chart from the clipboard onto it.

1989 Nature 5 Oct. 466/3 Selections are then cut, copied and pasted into a new window.

2001 Start & run your Business Dec. (Beyond Bricks Suppl.) 9/1 A free code to paste into your website that will harvest headlines featuring your chosen keywords and display them on your website whenever someone visits.

a. transitive. To cover or adorn by pasting. Usually with over. Now chiefly figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance

smear971

dechea1000

cleamc1000

besmearc1050

clamc1380

glue1382

pargeta1398

overslame?1440

plaster?1440

beslab1481

strike1525

bestrike1527

streak1540

bedaub1558

spread1574

daub1598

paste1609

beplaster1611

circumlite1657

oblite1657

fata1661

gaum?1825

treacle1839

butter1882

slap1902

slather1941

nap1961

1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. D3 Cast an eye to Siquis doore (pasted & plaistred vp with Seruingmens supplications).

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. xii. 79 Paste it well with good Paper.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 496 With driving Dust his Cheeks are pasted o're.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VII. xcix. 382 You may paste those lines over with blue or black paper.

1817 H. C. B. Campbell Jrnl. 10 Oct. in Journey to Florence (1951) 104 There are seldom any windows some are pasted up with paper others totally open.

1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 38 I have been busy..pasting a screen..all over with prints.

1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism v. 128 The sort of criticism which seeks to create an impression favourable or otherwise to Ibsen by simply pasting his characters all over with good or bad conduct marks.

1918 W. Cather My Ántonia i. xi. 92 For two days I sat at the dining-room table, pasting this book full of pictures for Yulka.

1993 Wine May (Champagne Suppl.) 16/3 Chardonnay does not normally make its presence felt until the fourth year, when it will paste over any gaps left in the middle palate by the Pinot Noir.

†b. transitive. To line the cover of (a book) by attaching part of the endpaper to it. Obsolete. rare.

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1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding viii. 35 When the book is to be pasted down, the ends [sc. end papers] are lifted from the book.

4. slang.

a. transitive. To beat, thrash, strike hard (cf. baste v.³, anoint v. 6, noint v. 2). Also: to inflict heavy damage on by shooting, bombing, or shelling. Now usually as pasting n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person

to-beatc893

threshOE

bustc1225

to lay on or upon?c1225

berrya1250

to-bunea1250

touchc1330

arrayc1380

byfrapc1380

boxc1390

swinga1400

forbeatc1420

peal?a1425

routa1425

noddlea1450

forslinger1481

wipe1523

trima1529

baste1533

waulk1533

slip1535

peppera1550

bethwack1555

kembc1566

to beat (a person) black and blue1568

beswinge1568

paik1568

trounce1568

canvass1573

swaddle?1577

bebaste1582

besoop1589

bumfeage1589

dry-beat1589

feague1589

lamback1589

clapperclaw1590

thrash1593

belam1595

lam1595

beswaddle1598

bumfeagle1598

belabour1600

tew1600

flesh-baste1611

dust1612

feeze1612

mill1612

verberate1614

bethumpa1616

rebuke1619

bemaul1620

tabor1624

maula1627

batterfang1630

dry-baste1630

lambaste1637

thunder-thump1637

cullis1639

dry-banga1640

nuddle1640

sauce1651

feak1652

cotton1654

fustigate1656

brush1665

squab1668

raddle1677

to tan (a person's) hide1679

slam1691

bebump1694

to give (a person) his load1694

fag1699

towel1705

to kick a person's butt1741

fum1790

devel1807

bray1808

to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813

mug1818

to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821

welt1823

hidea1825

slate1825

targe1825

wallop1825

pounce1827

to lay into1838

flake1841

muzzle1843

paste1846

looder1850

frail1851

snake1859

fettle1863

to do over1866

jacket1875

to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877

to take apart1880

splatter1881

to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884

to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886

to do up1887

to —— (the) hell out of1887

to beat — bells out of a person1890

soak1892

to punch out1893

stoush1893

to work over1903

to beat up1907

to punch up1907

cream1929

shellac1930

to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931

duff1943

clobber1944

to fill in1948

to bash up1954

to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976

to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983

beast1990

becurry-

fan-

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > drop (bombs) > bomb > heavily

plaster1914

saturate1918

coventrate1940

paste1942

carpet-bomb1944

saturation-bomb1950

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard

ding1548

to lay battery to1548

cannon1567

thunder1590

cannonade1637

bombard1686

bomb1694

shell1827

plonk1874

plaster1914

bump1915

labour1915

water1915

barragea1917

paste1942

stonk1944

1832 Spirit of Times 4 Feb. 1 Hit him in the bread basket—paste up his eyes—give it to him in the crumb.]

1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 58 They pasted his nibs, and scarpered rumbo.

1882 Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 2/2 No matter how he punches her and ‘pastes’ her.

1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago 132 'Is ribs is goin' black where father pasted 'em.

1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Apr. (Mag. section) 10/1 As the ducks kept coming round the point the shooters in the canoes had a great opportunity of pasting them.

1942 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 18 Mar.–9 June 23 (caption) The Whirlwind [fighter] has been used with much success for ‘pasting’ enemy aerodromes.

1988 K.O. Nov. 16/3 Canizales cleaned up, pasting him with vicious shots until referee Rudy Battle finally intervened.

2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Dec. c18/5 West Chester, the team that..pasted Hofstra, 46-12, in the 1962 Cement Bowl.

b. transitive. Sport. To hit (a ball) hard; to deliver (bowling, a volley, etc.) with force.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > types of batting

guard1744

collar1859

quilt1866

paste1894

to farm the strike1901

1876 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 6 May 5/1 Peters..pasted him once nicely, and White got in a clipping hit to right.]

1894 Washington Post 15 May 6/3 Grillin pasted the ball to left for the two bases.

1909 Cricket Argus (Bradford) 3 July 5/5 Had Hirst and Rhodes been playing for Yorkshire..they would have pasted some of his deliveries all over the shop.

1924 A. C. Maclaren Cricket Old & New xiii. 128 Many and many a short ball bowled by Gregory in the Test Matches of 1921, would have been pasted to the square leg boundary.

1973 A. Mann Tiara ii. 17 Let's go down and watch him paste the bowling.

1977 New Yorker 25 July 70/3 She guessed correctly each time just where Mrs. King, in charge of the forecourt, would be pasting her volley.

1986 New Yorker 13 Oct. 122/3 Evert pasted the ball down the line for a perfect placement with her two-handed backhand.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	paste
释义	pasten.adj. Brit. /peɪst/, U.S. /peɪst/ Forms: Middle English paiste, Middle English–1500s paast, Middle English–1500s 1700s paaste, Middle English–1700s past, Middle English– paste, 1500s payst, 1500s payste, 1500s–1700s paist, 1700s peast; Scottish pre-1700 pais, pre-1700 paist, pre-1700 pase, pre-1700 1700s– paste. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French paste; Latin pasta. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman past, paste paste, dough, pastry and Old French, Middle French paste dough (1174–8; French pâte , †paste ) and its etymon post-classical Latin pasta a small square piece of a medical preparation (c400), dough, paste (from 12th cent. in British sources), soft composition applied to the skin for medicinal purposes (1363 in the source translated in quot. ?a1425 at sense A. 2b) < ancient Greek παστή, recorded in plural, πασταί barley porridge, also Hellenistic Greek παστά (neuter plural), uses as noun of παστός sprinkled < πάσσειν to sprinkle, of unknown origin + -τός, suffix forming verbal adjectives. Compare Old Occitan, Occitan pasta dough (14th–15th cent.), glue (15th cent.), Catalan pasta (14th cent.), Spanish pasta dough (1220–50), Portuguese pasta (1470), Italian pasta paste (1310), dough (1344), glue (a1419 or earlier).Earlier currency is perhaps implied by the surname Henricus Paste (1202), although it is unclear whether this is to be interpreted as reflecting the Middle English or the Anglo-Norman word. With sense A. 1b compare Middle French paste de roy denoting a kind of confectionery (beginning of the 15th cent. or earlier). In sense A. 1c after Italian pasta pasta n.¹ In sense A. 2c after Chinese jiàng . With sense A. 7 compare Italian pasta (15th cent. in this sense; 1539 in la miglior pasta d'uomo ), Middle French paste (1554 in gens de bonne paste , 16th cent. in de mesme paste made of the same stuff; French pâte ). In sense A. 8 after Italian pasta (1612 or earlier in this sense). A. n. I. A mixture of ingredients or components. 1. Cookery. a. = pastry n. 1a. Now chiefly North American.Recorded earliest in compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] paste1288 breadc1400 pastry1442 1288–9 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisdict. Norwich (1892) 28 (MED) Johanne le Pastemakere..vendidit Carnes quas Judei vocant trefa. 1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 79 Make a þynne paast of dow, & make þerof as it were ryngis. Tak & fry hem in oyle de olyue. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. 447 The levein of the bred Which soureth all the past. ?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Make a paiste of pured flour knodden with faire water, sugur, saffron, and salt. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Liii^v Mixtyng water with floure and werkyng it in to paste. 1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Cor. v. 6 A litle leauen corrupteth the whole paste. a1655 T. T. de Mayerne Archimagirus Anglo-Gallicus (1658) xxi. 24 Making them [sc. mince pies] in a paste, or dough, very thin. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. ii. 29 I ground and beat them [sc. oats] between two Stones, then took Water, and made them into a Paste or Cake, which I toasted at the Fire, and eat warm with Milk. a1756 E. Haywood New Present (1771) 187 Make the flour and butter into a pretty stiff paste..then raise it for the pastry. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper v. 125 To make crisp Paste for Tarts. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 72 A paste made of flour and water, and fried, like fritters, in lard. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 43 Can she make your real flecky paste, as melts in your mouth, and lies all up like a puff? 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxvii. 613 Common Paste for Family Pies... 1¹/ ₄ lb. of flour, ¹/ ₂ lb. of butter, rather more than ¹/ ₂ pint of water. 1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island iii. 56 Come on, alanna, an make the paste for the pie. 1948 Lady Sysonby Cook Bk. (rev. ed.) 144 Wrap some peeled fresh apricots each in a square of the paste... Drop the dumplings into..boiling water. 2000 J. Cummings World Food: Thailand 41 The overwhelming popularity of kũaytĩaw [sc. noodles], made by mixing pure rice flour with water to form a paste which is then steamed to form wide, flat sheets. b. A soft, sweet mixture made from powdered or ground ingredients and liquid. Earliest in † paste royal n. (also paste real, paste rial) Obsolete a confection of sugar and spices. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > paste confections pastya1398 paste royal?c1425 marchpane1556 marzipan1583 paste1591 paste of Genoa1615 almond paste1622 jemello1688 1389–90 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 596 (MED) In 3 Coffins de pastreall. ?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 455 A half pounde of past roiale. 1591 in J. Lyly Wks. (1902) I. 449 Preserues,..iellies,..marmelats, pasts, comfits, of all sorts. a1651 E. Grey True Gentlewomans Delight (1653) sig. C7 To make paste Royal in Spice. Take Sugar..four ounces, very finely beaten and searced, and put into it an ounce of Cinnamon, and Ginger, and a grain of Musk, and so beat it into paste, with a little Gum-Dragon. 1662 in Statutes at Large, Ireland (1765) II. 461 Past of Jean, the pound 7s. 6d. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 83/1 Jemelloes is a Paste made like Butter, of fine Sugar, Yolks of Eggs, Musk, Carraway seeds [etc.]. a1700 Receipts of Pastery in Tollemache Bk. of Secrets (2001) 233 To make paste Riall, or marmelade of any of these friutes. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 635 Making marmalades and perfumed pastes, which exceed those of Genoa. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 277/2 The term paste is applied to the inspissated juice of liquorice, and some other vegetables. 1919 H. Walpole Secret City iii. viii. 370 On the table was the paskha, a sweet paste made of eggs and cream, curds and sugar. 1983 P. J. Sicard et al. Devel. Sweeteners—2 i. 17 Lozenges are normally produced from a base paste composed of very fine sugar bound together with gums. 1999 L. Mason Sweets & Sweet Shops 10 Apothecaries and confectioners both used sugar paste. c. Pasta. Cf. Italian paste n. at Italian adj. and n. Special uses 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pasta > [noun] paste1673 pasta1830 Italian paste1845 pasta1865 pasta basica1981 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 405 Paste made into strings..(which if greater they call Macaroni, if lesser Vermicelli) they cut in pieces and put in their pots as we do oat-meal. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Macaron, the name of a sort of vermicelli, a paste made of flour and water, and formed into the shape of the barrel of a quill, or the guts of small fowls. 1843 Civilian & Galveston (Texas) City Gaz. 5 Apr. 1/2 2 boxes ass'd Italian Pastes. 1861 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 9 129/1 The manufacture of ‘paste’ (or vermicelli, as it is called in England) continues to be one of the most flourishing trades in Genoa. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 544/2 Macaroni... The same substance in different forms is also known as vermicelli, pasta or Italian pastes, spaghetti, taglioni, fanti, etc. 2. a. gen. Any moist but fairly stiff mixture, typically made from a powder and liquid. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > [noun] > viscous substance paste1390 gummosityc1400 gleimc1440 glaira1529 viscosity1540 plaster1588 emplastic1597 batter1601 starcha1627 mucilage1639 viscus1643 grume1718 syrup1838 sticky1851 goo1903 gloop1927 goop1930 glop1945 ick1947 gunge1969 the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [noun] > plasticity > plastic substance paste1390 dough1558 conspersion1607 plastic1803 Melmac1941 1390–1 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisdict. Norwich (1892) 70 (MED) Johannes Wake, lyster, assuetus est iactare cineres, paste, et alia..in Regia Ripa. a1475 Recipe Painting in Archæol. Jrnl. (1844) 1 155 (MED) For to make fyn azure withoute past. 1521 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. I. f. 41, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Paste Will Wilson..is ordanit that & he or ony of his seruands in his werk hous cast wad paist in the burn or dam to pay xl s. to our lady werk. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xx. 383 An idoll made of paste of wheate and mays mingled with hony. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Impastation A Work of Masonry, made of Stuc, or Stone beaten and wrought up in manner of a Paste. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 92 The egg is involved in a sort of paste, which serves at once for the young animal's protection and nourishment. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 30 Forming corrosive muriate of mercury into a paste with water. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 631 A species of rapid crystallization ensues, and the thin paste soon acquires a solid consistence. 1991 Artist Nov. 15/2 Put one part of powdered gum tragacanth into a jar, and wet with alcohol to form a paste. b. A soft composition applied to the skin (or, formerly, taken internally) for medicinal purposes; (also, in later use) a substance used similarly for cosmetic purposes. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion paste?a1425 pomatum1562 reparation1579 pomade1598 lustrification1631 butter?1762 war-paint1869 toiletry1917 face1923 make-up1932 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > paste (external) paste?a1425 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > paste (external) > paste (internal) paste1842 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 90 (MED) Be it cautarized wiþ rounde claualez cauteriez..as seiþ Alcotaym, or wiþ past as Jesus. ?a1450 Agnus Castus (Stockh.) (1950) 170 (MED) Tak þe mele of þis lyppyne and þe jous of wyrmwod and make a past and bake it and ete it. a1500 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Wellcome) f. 24 (MED) Þou shalt make a past [L. pultes] of x partes of water and of oyle and flour of whet and ley it vpon þe postume. 1765 O. Goldsmith Ess. xxvi. 233 In vain she tries her pastes and creams, To smooth her skin, or hide its seams. 1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Paste, a compound medicine like the pastil, but less consistent, flexible, less saccharine, and more mucilaginous. 1851 T. B. Curling Observ. Dis. Rectum iv. 30 The confection of black pepper..known as Ward's Paste..in great repute as a remedy for piles. 1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. No. 2097. 39 A variety of pastes are also useful in this stage [of eczema]. 2000 A. Dalby Dangerous Tastes 29 Sandalwood paste is applied to alleviate burning of the skin. c. The mixture of clay, water, etc., from which porcelain and other ceramics are made.Distinguished between a hard variety which produces a dense, completely vitrified porcelain, and a soft variety which requires less heat to fuse and produces a less glazed porcelain. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > paste for making porcelain petuntse1728 paste1735 body1774 frit1791 service paste1839 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Porcelain With the Sediment, collected at bottom in form of a Paste, [they] fill a kind of Moulds.] 1735 Dict. Polygraph. at China To make your paste of this powder, first dissolve an ounce of very white gum arabic in a pail of water. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Porcelain The china-ware being made of a paste, part of which is made of a substance in itself scarce possible to be vitrified. 1848 H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. 6 The celebrated Porcelain of Dresden, or more properly, Meissen,..is the most choice..of German fabrication. The material is termed ‘hard paste’. 1848 H. R. Forster Stowe Catal. 8 Chantilly Porcelain is a fine kind of ‘soft paste’. 1879 J. J. Young Ceramic Art 55 There is..very little difference in hardness between the hard-paste and the soft-paste. 1940 B. Leach Potter's Bk. iii. 43 Western potters..have travelled further and further away from a natural conception of clay towards an ideal of over-refined mixtures which are aptly called pastes. 1990 BM Mag. (Brit. Museum Soc.) Spring 46/1 The Chelsea soft paste porcelain vase illustrated in the Summer issue is identified as showing the death of Cleopatra. 2000 M. Sargeant Royal Crown Derby 4 Derby..used a soft paste imitation porcelain and a thick and glassy glaze. 3. a. A mixture of flour and water (sometimes with added starch) used as an adhesive, esp. for paper, and as a sealant. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > that which closes an aperture > means of preventing passage of gas or liquid > substance pastea1400 gasketing1838 sealant1945 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > adhesive > [noun] > flour-based paste1530 batter1624 flour-paste1806 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 278 (MED) Take a litil hare..& do him in an erþen vessel..& stoppe it faste..wiþ good lute or wiþ past. ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 31 (MED) Fylle a potte of drestys of good ale..and stoppe it well abowyn with paste. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 250/2 Paast or glewe, cole. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 393 The common past that wee vse, made with the finest floure of wheat. 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 46 Small bits of Paper sticking with some of the Past with w^ch 'twas fix'd. 1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. No. 29. 47 Brush paste, not gum, lightly over the back. 1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Home Handicrafts 39 If the paste is not to be used for gilt papers.., add 2 oz. of powdered alum. 1988 Which? Nov. 518/2 Hang new wallpaper using a paste which incorporates a fungicide. 1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) ii. 93/2 Standard flock papers are difficult to hang, as contact with paste will ruin the pile. †b. The material of which pasteboards (pasteboard n. 3) are made. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > pasteboard paste1549 paperboard1552 pasteboard1562 pasted paper1570 board1660 Bristol-board1809 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) (colophon) Thesame bounde in paste or in boordes. 1562 in Comm. Ld. Grey of Wilton (1847) 59 A schoocheon of armes wrowght on payste. 1607 T. Bodley Let. (1926) 171 If yow cause it to be bound in past, I will pay for the binding. 4. Angling. A usually soft mixture used as bait in coarse fishing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > materials for bait1496 paste1653 greaves1740 mackerel bait1866 1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 9 Gentles, Paste or Cadice, which we call Cod-bait. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler viii. 169 The Carp bites either at wormes or at Paste . View more context for this quotation 1704 (title) The compleat fisher..being a clear..way of taking all sorts of fresh-water fish with the worm, fly, paste, and other baits. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 5 Oct. 9/3 Salmon-roe is his favourite and usual lure, and with this bait—the ‘paste’ he calls it—he works sad havoc. 1956 People 13 May 12/6 He reckons that morning and evening are the best times for rod-benders, using bread flake and paste, on a 16- or 18-hook, for roach. 1997 J. Wilson Coarse Fishing Method Man. (1998) 138/1 Soft baits, such as breadflake or pastes, are quite liable to disintegrate before reaching the tench or carp's throat teeth. 5. A spreadable edible mixture of seasoned ground meat, fish, vegetables, etc.; a pâté, a purée. Frequently as the second element in compounds.bean, fish, tomato paste, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > spread paste1817 spread1866 fish paste1920 cheese spread1921 sandwich spreadc1938 Marmite1966 the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > fish paste alec?1527 caviar1591 bottarga1598 anchovy butter1806 paste1817 tamarind-fish1858 beluga1883 taramosalata1910 fish paste1920 sevruga1959 surimi1973 1817 W. Kitchiner Cook's Oracle (1823) 320 [Receipt for making] Anchovy Paste or le Beurre d'Anchois. 1855 A. H. Hassall Food & its Adulterations 505 One of the samples of bloater paste was adulterated..with starch or flour. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 88/2 The principal parts of the cow are eaten raw.., the remainder being cut into small pieces and cooked with the favourite sauce of butter and red pepper paste. 1981 Cook's Mag. Nov. 46/1 Dr. Robert Baker and his colleagues extract a paste from those seafood parts that are normally discarded. 2001 Observer 28 Oct. (Life Suppl.) 80/3 White miso is made from a fermented paste of soybeans and rice or barley. II. Extended uses. 6. [Perhaps an alteration of Middle French passe part of a woman's headdress shielding the face (a1486; French passe).] An ornamental headdress made from pasteboard and worn by women. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > other dorlot1340 horn1340 vitremytec1386 templesc1430 bycocket1464 burlet1490 knapscall1498 shapion1504 shaffron1511 paste1527 attire1530 faille1530 muzzle1542 corneta1547 abacot1548 wase1548 wrapper1548 tiring1552 basket1555 bilimenta1556 Paris head1561 shadow1578 head-roll1583 mitre1585 whitehead1588 crispa1592 ship-tire1602 oreillet1603 scoffion1604 coif1617 aigrette1631 egreta1645 drail1647 topknotc1686 slop1688 Burgundy1701 bandore1708 fly-cap1753 capriole1756 lappet-head1761 fly1773 turban1776 pouf1788 knapscapa1802 chip1804 toque1817 bonnet1837 casquette1840 war bonnet1845 taj1851 pugree1859 kennel1896 roach1910 Deely bobber1982 1527 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1872) ii. 1606 Hire of a serkelet and a rich paste, with the attire thereto,..4s. 1542 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 5 in Statutes of Realm (1817) III. 831 Every other..person..whos Wiff shall were any Frenche hood or bonett of Velvett, with any habiliment past or egge of golde perle or stone. 1592 R. Greene Vision sig. D3 The Bride..was very finelie dizond in a little Cappe, and a faire paste. 1853 D. Rock Church of our Fathers IV. xii. 174 The bride, when a maiden, wore her hair flowing..and nothing but a wreath of jewels, called a ‘paste’, or flowers, about her head. 1939 M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 108/2 Paste, woman's headdress of 16th century, made of two pieces of stiffened material meeting at center of forehead; worn under hood; adorned with jewels and other decoration. †7. figurative. The material of which a person is regarded as made, seen as an indication of character or personality. Cf. mettle n. 1, stuff n.¹ 3b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > [noun] loamc725 flesh and fellc1000 fleshtimbera1225 flesh and blooda1340 powderc1350 substancec1350 claya1400 paste1645 corporeity1647 muscle1819 tissue1834 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xliii. 87 The Inhabitants of that Town [sc. Geneva], me thinks, are made of another past. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Ded. sig. B^v Others were more sweet, and affable; made of a more pliant Past. 1863 M. Arnold in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 244 To us..with the German paste in our composition. 1874 tr. H. de Balzac Droll Stories ii. 256 The Marchesa..consented..for the pleasure of knowing of what paste God made kings. 8. Heavy, very clear flint glass used for making imitation gems; an imitation gem or (collectively) imitation gems made of this. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > artificial stone > [noun] jewel1613 paste1662 philosophers' stone1879 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > artificial stone > [noun] > material of paste1662 strass1809 1662 C. Merrett tr. A. Neri Art of Glass v. xcii. 143 This past imitates all Jewels and colours, and hath a wonderful shining and lustre, And in hardness too it imitates the jewels. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Apr. (1965) I. 399 That Paste with which they make counterfit Jewells. 1782 J. Byres Let. 13 Oct. in I. Jenkins & K. Sloan Vases & Volcanoes (1996) 188/1 Sir William Hamilton has got..two curious rings, the one a Hercules playing the lyre on a fine jacinth, the other an ancient paste about a third of an inch square, on which is a Syren. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. i. 2 The diamonds went to the jeweller's, and Lady Frances wore paste. 1889 Harper's Mag. July 262/2 An expert knowledge has become widely disseminated which easily detects the paste from the real jewel. 1948 R. M. Pearl Pop. Gemmology vii. 246 Fine glass imitations called paste became so popular in Europe that they were a fad among the wealthy. 1991 ‘E. Anthony’ Relic (1992) (BNC) 127 Shops and dealers who specialized in old paste, in decorative objects, phoney icons and faked religious relics. 9. Geology. The matrix of a rock, esp. a conglomerate. Now rare. ΚΠ 1796 A. Aikin Jrnl. 1 Aug. in Tour N. Wales (1797) 66 The mica is..distributed through the felspar, quartz, and paste, indiscriminately. 1897 Philos. Trans. 1896 (Royal Soc.) A. 187 379 At the top of this layer, the paste in which the fragments are embedded becomes highly ferruginous. 1930 Geogr. Rev. 20 453 These constituents are embedded in a thick paste or matrix of distintegrated shale and sandstone rocks. 1976 Geogr. Jrnl. 142 407 In places, adjacent blocks are separated by serpentinite paste, or by a matrix of rock flour. B. adj. Made of paste (sense A. 8); adorned with a gem or gems of paste. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > artificial stone > [adjective] > made or covered with paste1755 strass1897 rhinestoned1943 1755 Pennsylvania Gaz. 18 Sept. 4/2 Just imported..and to be sold at the lowest prices..fine pearl, paste and jett necklaces. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 809 Tho' fiction out may trick her, And in paste gems and frippery deck her. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 28 High-heeled shoes..with paste or diamond buckles. 1867 W. G. Deeley in Rep. Artisans Visit Paris Universal Exhib. ii. 46 Men..have generally served their time with imitation diamond setters or ‘paste’ workers. 1973 N. Bawden Carrie's War x. 109 Glittery junk, paste copies of real stones. 1996 L. O'Keeffe Shoes iii. 175 The spun-gold ‘Topkapi’, gleaming with paste gems, is an ode to Turkish opulence. Compounds C1. paste bowl n. ΚΠ 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 394/1 Tools for small work..paste-bowl. 2001 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 25 Mar. a2 In the midst of San Francisco's high-tech economy is an information business whose main tools are razor cutters and paste bowls. paste brush n. ΚΠ 1764 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 129 One peast brush. 1803 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1947) VIII. 138 Here my friend, take the paste-brush & Stick a piece of your three color'd Flag over them. 1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) xi. 500/5 (heading) Paste brush. Use either a wide wall brush or a short-pile roller to apply paste to the back of wallcoverings. † paste-impression n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1824 J. Galt Quadr. in Rothelan III. 187 I..showed the paste-impression of the seal. paste pot n. ΚΠ 1835 New Eng. Mag. June 488 Such a book as any clever school-boy, with paste-pot and scissors, could prepare. 1986 E. E. Scharff Worldly Power ix. 150 It was a world of shirt-sleeve scriveners, paste pots, pneumatic tubes, and olive drab office machinery. C2. paste-blacking n. now historical a type of polish. ΚΠ 1834 Boston Ann. Advertiser 12 in Stimpson's Boston Directory Bell's Paste Blacking Warehouse, 5 Fanenil Hall. 1884 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 16 103 A soft, deep, black fetid mud..nearly approaching in appearance to paste blacking. 1987 Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. That warehouse, and his work there, covering the tops of paste-blacking, never left his [sc. Dickens'] memory. paste bodied adj. [ < paste n. + bodied adj., after Chinese jiàng tāi < jiàng paste + tāi embryo (with reference to the pre-fired state of the ceramic)] (of Chinese porcelain or other ceramics) made of a fine white clay (cf. sense A. 2c). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [adjective] > porcelain > types of porcelain hard1776 Nantgarw1820 reticulated1881 grand feu1888 high-fusing1893 paste bodied1915 1915 R. L. Hobson Chinese Pottery & Porcelain II. ix. 141 Steatitic porcelain,..with the body..composed of hua shih..is light to handle, and opaque... It is variously named by the Chinese sha-t'ai (sand bodied) and chiang-t'ai (paste bodied). 1964 M. Medley Handbk. Chinese Art 63/1 Chiang-t'ai, ‘paste bodied’ wares made from a fine-grained white firing clay, often miscalled ‘soft paste’. 1997 Jrnl. Field Archaeol. 24 233 The production of glazed fritware (artificial paste bodied) ceramics in medieval Syria. paste cutter n. now rare a utensil for cutting pastry into shapes; a pastry cutter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > pastry cutter jagging-iron1598 runner1688 twitcher1688 paste cutter1845 cookie cutter1864 jagger1864 pastry cutter1869 cookie press1919 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery i. 5 Divide the bread into dice, or cut it with a deep paste-cutter into any other form. 1893 S. Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita II. xviii. 84 I sold a box of paste-cutters at one and nine. 1997 Sunday Oklahoman (Nexis) 24 Aug. (Accent section) 3 Cut it in small round pieces with a paste cutter, either plain or scalloped. paste eel n. now historical a microscopic nematode worm, as found in fermented flour paste. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Anguillulidae > member of genus Angillula eel1746 paste eel1750 vinegar-eel1836 vinegar worm1896 1750 Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 631 Paste-Eels: These Animals, [we]..had the Pleasure to observe were viviparous. 1857 E. C. Otté tr. A. de Quatrefages de Bréau Rambles Naturalist I. 282 Certain Paste-eels which belong to the Helminthes. 1985 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 46 68 Needham suggested that one could account in a similar manner for the origins of paste eels from the vegetation of flour and water. pastefitter n. now rare a person who pastes together the parts of the uppers of boots before they are stitched together by machine. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > one who joins closer1724 pastefitter1876 slugger1911 1876 Boot & Shoe Trades Chron. 1 Sept. 157/2 Wanted best Paste Fitter (Female). 1883 Birmingham Daily Post 11 Oct. Boot Trade.—Wanted, an experienced Pastefitter for General Men's Work. 1927 in R.A. Salaman Dict. Leather-working Tools (1986) 66 Closer's or Paste Fitter's pattern, forged steel, hardened and tempered, bright all over. † paste-god n. Obsolete an idol made of paste.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > made of paste paste-god1626 1626 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) Table, sig. Yyyy4^v Paste-god of the Mexicans [cf. viii. xiii. 880 The Religious Virgins or Nuns mingled a quantity of Beets with rosted Maiz, and moulded it with Hony, making an Image of that paste]. pastegrain n. Bookbinding a material made from split sheepskin with a coating of paste or glue to harden it and improve the grain; (also occasionally) an inferior kind of morocco leather. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > leather roan1383 Turkey leather1655 sheep1705 Turkey1715 Russia1724 rough calf1730 law1738 mottled calf1857 pastegrain1880 Rutland1894 Cambridge calf1895 Niger morocco1898 Niger1946 1880 Bookseller 3 May 471 Cruden's Concordance..in limp Paste-grain and Morocco. 1923 H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery 59 Pastegrain—Also abbreviated to P.G., but more correctly specified as pastegrain roan. Comprises the thin grain side of a split sheepskin, mechanically grained with a cracked or fissured pattern and stiffened slightly by pasting on the back... In the fancy trade P.G. roan is elaborately but erroneously described as French morocco. 2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 19 Jan. 6 Lightweight paper, choice of pastegrain or calfskin leather covers. † paste-horn n. Obsolete a cow's horn used as a receptacle for paste. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > other leather-working equipment scoring iron1688 paste-horn1834 dresser1853 pricker1858 stitch-wheel1875 try-stick1888 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. i, in Fraser's Mag. June 664/2 Working on tanned hides, amid pincers, paste-horns, rosin, swine-bristles. 1880 D. N. Johnson Sketches of Lynn 31 The following tools and appliances were regarded as essential [to the shoemaker]..tax, wax, a piece of sponge, paste-horn, bottles for blacking [etc.]. † pastehouse n. Obsolete a building where pastry is made. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking establishment or kitchen > [noun] > place where pastry made or sold pastehouse1471 pastry?a1527 pastry shop1656 pasticceria1921 1471–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 94 (MED) Pro nova construccione unius Pastehouse juxta ostium coquine. paste job n. North American colloquial something that has been assembled or repaired quickly or haphazardly, esp. from parts of something else; a pastiche; cf. scissors-and-paste adj. at scissors n. and int. Phrases 1b. ΚΠ 1936 Metronome Feb. 61/2 Paste job, doctoring a stock. [Cf. Stock, the publishers arrangement.] 1949 B. Wolfe in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 537 He was only recording the tottering racial myth of the post-bellum South, doing a paste job on its fissioning false face. 2001 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 2 Feb. b1 Their solution has nothing to do with preservation... It's re-creation. It's a paste job. † paste-kettle n. Obsolete a kettle for boiling paste. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessel in which liquid is boiled > [noun] > vessel for heating oil, size, etc. > specific pitch pot1295 pitch kettle1420 glue-pot1483 paste-kettle1825 1825 Sporting Mag. 17 36 A somewhat truant disposition..coupled him to a paste-kettle. paste meat n. †(a) pastry (obsolete); (b) ground meat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [noun] > article(s) made of bakemeatc1405 pastry1526 baked meat?1560 pastry work1565 paste meat1597 patisserie1784 tabnab1933 1597–8 Househ. Bks. James VI & Anne 30 Apr. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1983) V. 350/2 The keipar of the palace pais meitt. 1598 tr. G. de Rosselli Epulario D ij These past meates would..be yellow with Saffron. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Rafioli A kind of little paste-meates in fashion of little pasties, rauiols. 1987 Japan Econ. Jrnl. (Nexis) 10 Apr. 18 The bones of porkers or beef cattle are crushed into powder to use again as paste meat. paste-pin n. now English regional (northern) (rare) = paste roller n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > rolling-pin rollera1425 rolling pin1563 paste roller1648 paste-pin1752 pin1822 1752 E. Moxon Eng. Housewifery (new ed.) 124 With a paste-pin or thible stir in your flour to the butter. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper v. 126 Roll it up tight, then with your Paste Pin roll it out again. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 170 Paste-pin, a rolling pin for pastry. † paste-point n. Obsolete Printing a very fine, sharp point (see quot. 1888). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > tympan > point point1683 paste-point1825 register point1858 1825 T. C. Hansard Typographia 912 The blocks being..inked.., and united..by means of those sheet-anchors of pressmanship called points, three or even four of which are fixed (by what a printer calls paste-points) upon the tympans, so as to act upon the margins of the print. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 97 Paste-points, very fine points—usually drawing-pins—used for very closely registered work on a hand-press. paste pudding n. (a) a bland or simple thing; (b) literal a pudding made with pastry or paste. ΚΠ 1908 Daily Chron. 14 Mar. 3/2 A sort of literary paste-pudding with an occasional plum to whet the reader's appetite. 1994 Dallas Morning News (Nexis) 12 Nov. 4 b If playing Louisville instead of Notre Dame or Florida State doesn't sound like paste pudding, the Aggies get to repeat the experience next week. 1998 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Jan. ss3 Seasonal desserts include red bean paste pudding shaped like a fish. † paste-rock n. Geology Obsolete a band of shaly rock occurring in the Wenlock formation in Wales. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > shale > others till1672 bass1686 bat1686 blue metal1699 scallop slate1711 black shale1730 shale-shiver1794 shale1825 till-stonec1830 Wenlock shale1834 famp1836 Boghead1858 oil shale1866 paper shale1874 symon1881 paste-rock1882 slasto1953 1866 J. W. Salter in A. C. Ramsay Geol. N. Wales 275 A pale-coloured slate, which, when collecting with Professor Sedgwick, we used to term ‘pasty rock’,..might well be a portion of the Lower Llandovery series.] 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 676 These rocks, termed the ‘paste-rock’ by Sedgwick, have an extreme thickness of 1000 to 1500 feet. 1885 Lyell's Elem. Geol. (ed. 4) xxvii. 431 A..set of beds of fine light grey or blue shales, termed ‘paste-rock’, which overlie the Upper Llandovery strata. paste roller n. now historical a rolling pin for pastry. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > baker's equipment > rolling-pin rollera1425 rolling pin1563 paste roller1648 paste-pin1752 pin1822 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Rol-stock, a Past-roler to make Pyes with. 1767 N.Y. Jrnl. 6 Aug. [List of hardwood items] Drum sticks and walking stick heads, paste rollers, round rulers and sugar hammers, [etc.]. 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery ii. 81 Plaice is..rendered less watery by beating it gently with a paste-roller before it is cooked. 1995 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 29 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 59 Although Eliza Acton in 1845 refers to the implement as a paste roller, a few years later Mrs Beeton, characteristically, calls a rolling pin a rolling pin. paste royal n. see sense A. 1b. paste water n. = paste wash n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > paste, etc. scutchin1818 assiette1869 paste water1875 paste wash1880 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 424 [Bookbinding] The leather..is..softened by..the application of paste-water to make it pliable. 1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding 116 The non-porous leathers need only be washed with thin paste water or vinegar. 1982 M. T. Roberts & D. Etherington Bookbinding & Conservation Bks. 193/3 Paste water, paste that has been thinned down to the consistency of milk. † paste-wife n. Obsolete a woman who makes and sells the ornamental headdresses called ‘pastes’ (cf. sense A. 6) and other adornments for women. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns > woman purpuressc1384 purpurarec1425 silk-womanc1440 paste-wife1550 rag woman1653 merceress1840 draperess1854 linendraperess1868 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making other items of clothing > one who makes other items of clothing wimpler1260 paltock-maker1376 wimplester1379 point-maker1405 girdler1428 silk-maid1474 pointer1500 middlemana1525 jack-maker1541 paste-wife1550 silkman1553 body-maker1573 linen-armourer1603 bodice-maker1672 costumier1798 costumer1830 costumist1842 rober1852 stock-maker1858 tie-maker1901 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Dviii Her mydle braced in as smal as a wande..some b[u]y wastes of wyre at the paste wyfes hande. 1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. xi. f. 320 Pasted paper, such as pastwiues make womens pastes of. Derivatives ˈpaste-like adj. resembling paste in consistency, texture, or appearance. ΚΠ 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 223 The larvæ..cast from their anus three or four masses of a soft and paste-like matter. 1895 S. Crane Red Badge of Courage ix. 99 He now sprang to his feet and, going closer, gazed upon the pastelike face. 1989 Bon Appetit Sept. 82/2 Mix using on/off turns or mash with fork to pastelike consistency; do not overwork. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). pastev. Brit. /peɪst/, U.S. /peɪst/ Forms: late Middle English– paste, 1600s past; English regional (midlands) (in sense 4a) 1800s– paast. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: paste n. Etymology: < paste n. Compare pasted adj. †1. a. transitive. To make into a paste by pounding or grinding; to incorporate with or into a paste, as a dry ingredient in cooking. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > to form a paste mouldc1390 temperc1400 paste?a1425 ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 185 (MED) Pouder hem and paste hem wiþ water of rosen. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 637 Þe akþe of þe ȝerde is lissed with þe cromme of brede pastede [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. stamped; L. pistata] with þe whites of ayren and oyle of chesbolle. b. transitive. To incorporate with or into a paste, as a colour in textile printing. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > dye [verb (transitive)] > make dye age1830 paste1862 1862 C. O'Neill Dict. Calico Printing at Resists Resist compositions intended for this latter purpose are usually called pastes, and the colour so preserved is said to be ‘pasted’. 2. a. transitive. To cause to adhere by means of paste; to stick or fasten with paste. Frequently with down, together, up, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bind [verb (transitive)] > line cover with end-paper or fly-leaves paste1561 paper1875 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with other materials > work with other materials [verb (transitive)] > fix or fasten with adhesive glue13.. lute1489 paste1561 gum1592 starch1602 solution1891 seccotine1903 Scotch-tape1947 tape1956 sellotape1960 epoxy1974 1561–2 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 142 For pastinge y^e table of the x commandementes ijd. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. F2 Such as paste vp their papers on euery post. 1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 80 With Parchment pasted or glewed upon them. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 369 Here they still past up their drolling Lampoons, & scurrilous Papers. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 136 Several pieces of Cloth pasted together. 1706 Boston News-let. 27 Jan. 2/1 The Sheriffs of the Several County's..are Commanded to cause this Proclamation to be forthwith Published and Pasted up. 1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 6 The Ballads pasted on the Wall. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 342 She examines the sheet almanac pasted up behind the door to see what holiday it might be. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. v. 130 The feathers, pasted on a fine cotton web, were wrought into dresses. 1901 D. Cockerell Bookbinding xvii. 254 To paste down end papers, the book is placed on the block with the board open. 1962 Publishers' Weekly 12 Mar. 19 Maxwell Volker..creates poetry by cutting out single words or long strips from newspapers and magazines which he haphazardly pastes together. 1995 Church Times 23 June 5/2 I recall him methodically pasting up copy at his desk, or sticking on bromides in the case-room. b. transitive. To cause to adhere closely or firmly, as if by pasting. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)] > adhere to > cause to adhere stickc1425 clam1598 cling1606 plaster1623 beglue1658 adhere1845 clitch1863 paste1863 key1923 1863 Year-bk. Med. 1862 (New Sydenham Soc.) 387 General diffuse peritonitis, many coils of intestine being pasted together by adherent lymph. 1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 425 A perfect tempest of wind, which..drove the Era against the western bank, where she remained hopelessly pasted. 1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan xiv. 218 Jim Doyle stood by the kitchen sink, a cigar pasted in his round, jolly face. 1986 New Yorker 10 Mar. 72/2 They paste together different perceptions of the world by visiting each other's areas. c. transitive. Computing. To insert (text or graphics) into a document by copying it from elsewhere in a single operation. Cf. cut v. Additions. ΚΠ 1975 Business Week 30 June 82 Hit a button called ‘cut’, and the word or paragraph disappears. Punch another button labeled ‘paste’ and the paragraph or word is inserted into the text where the pointer is located. 1983 Byte Feb. 33/2 My next step is to ‘tear off’ a sheet of Lisa Calc ‘paper’ and paste my ‘Annual Sales’ bar chart from the clipboard onto it. 1989 Nature 5 Oct. 466/3 Selections are then cut, copied and pasted into a new window. 2001 Start & run your Business Dec. (Beyond Bricks Suppl.) 9/1 A free code to paste into your website that will harvest headlines featuring your chosen keywords and display them on your website whenever someone visits. 3. a. transitive. To cover or adorn by pasting. Usually with over. Now chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance smear971 dechea1000 cleamc1000 besmearc1050 clamc1380 glue1382 pargeta1398 overslame?1440 plaster?1440 beslab1481 strike1525 bestrike1527 streak1540 bedaub1558 spread1574 daub1598 paste1609 beplaster1611 circumlite1657 oblite1657 fata1661 gaum?1825 treacle1839 butter1882 slap1902 slather1941 nap1961 1609 T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. sig. D3 Cast an eye to Siquis doore (pasted & plaistred vp with Seruingmens supplications). 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. xii. 79 Paste it well with good Paper. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 496 With driving Dust his Cheeks are pasted o're. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VII. xcix. 382 You may paste those lines over with blue or black paper. 1817 H. C. B. Campbell Jrnl. 10 Oct. in Journey to Florence (1951) 104 There are seldom any windows some are pasted up with paper others totally open. 1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 38 I have been busy..pasting a screen..all over with prints. 1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism v. 128 The sort of criticism which seeks to create an impression favourable or otherwise to Ibsen by simply pasting his characters all over with good or bad conduct marks. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia i. xi. 92 For two days I sat at the dining-room table, pasting this book full of pictures for Yulka. 1993 Wine May (Champagne Suppl.) 16/3 Chardonnay does not normally make its presence felt until the fourth year, when it will paste over any gaps left in the middle palate by the Pinot Noir. †b. transitive. To line the cover of (a book) by attaching part of the endpaper to it. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1880 J. W. Zaehnsdorf Art of Bookbinding viii. 35 When the book is to be pasted down, the ends [sc. end papers] are lifted from the book. 4. slang. a. transitive. To beat, thrash, strike hard (cf. baste v.³, anoint v. 6, noint v. 2). Also: to inflict heavy damage on by shooting, bombing, or shelling. Now usually as pasting n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > drop (bombs) > bomb > heavily plaster1914 saturate1918 coventrate1940 paste1942 carpet-bomb1944 saturation-bomb1950 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard ding1548 to lay battery to1548 cannon1567 thunder1590 cannonade1637 bombard1686 bomb1694 shell1827 plonk1874 plaster1914 bump1915 labour1915 water1915 barragea1917 paste1942 stonk1944 1832 Spirit of Times 4 Feb. 1 Hit him in the bread basket—paste up his eyes—give it to him in the crumb.] 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 58 They pasted his nibs, and scarpered rumbo. 1882 Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 2/2 No matter how he punches her and ‘pastes’ her. 1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago 132 'Is ribs is goin' black where father pasted 'em. 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Apr. (Mag. section) 10/1 As the ducks kept coming round the point the shooters in the canoes had a great opportunity of pasting them. 1942 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 18 Mar.–9 June 23 (caption) The Whirlwind [fighter] has been used with much success for ‘pasting’ enemy aerodromes. 1988 K.O. Nov. 16/3 Canizales cleaned up, pasting him with vicious shots until referee Rudy Battle finally intervened. 2001 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Dec. c18/5 West Chester, the team that..pasted Hofstra, 46-12, in the 1962 Cement Bowl. b. transitive. Sport. To hit (a ball) hard; to deliver (bowling, a volley, etc.) with force. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > types of batting guard1744 collar1859 quilt1866 paste1894 to farm the strike1901 1876 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 6 May 5/1 Peters..pasted him once nicely, and White got in a clipping hit to right.] 1894 Washington Post 15 May 6/3 Grillin pasted the ball to left for the two bases. 1909 Cricket Argus (Bradford) 3 July 5/5 Had Hirst and Rhodes been playing for Yorkshire..they would have pasted some of his deliveries all over the shop. 1924 A. C. Maclaren Cricket Old & New xiii. 128 Many and many a short ball bowled by Gregory in the Test Matches of 1921, would have been pasted to the square leg boundary. 1973 A. Mann Tiara ii. 17 Let's go down and watch him paste the bowling. 1977 New Yorker 25 July 70/3 She guessed correctly each time just where Mrs. King, in charge of the forecourt, would be pasting her volley. 1986 New Yorker 13 Oct. 122/3 Evert pasted the ball down the line for a perfect placement with her two-handed backhand. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1288v.?a1425
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