[STICKING ppl. a.] A material for covering and closing superficial wounds, consisting of linen, silk, or other textile fabric spread with an adhesive substance; a general name for COURT-PLASTER, LEAD-plaster, DIACHYLON-plaster, etc.
1655. Culpepper, etc., Riverius, I. ii. 12. They heal up the wound with a sticking Plaister.
1749. Gataker, trans. Le Dran’s Operat. Surg., 438. I secure them [the flaps of the wound] in that situation with straps of sticking plaister.
1841. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, xxiii. He was fixing a very small patch of sticking-plaster … near the corner of his mouth.
1861. Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. III. 184. Court or Black Sticking-plaster is made with a solution of isinglass and tincture of benzoin laid upon black sarsenet.
1882. J. Ashton, Soc. Life Q. Anne, I. 169. In the reign of Charles I., when suns, moons, stars, and even coaches and four were cut out of sticking plaister, and stuck on the face.
b. attrib. Sticking-plaster miniature, a silhouette cut in black paper (resembling court-plaster).
1837. Thackeray, Ravenswing, vii. Little cracked sticking-plaster miniatures. Ibid. (1848), Book of Snobs, xiv. A sticking-plaster portrait of Hugby…, in a cap and gown.
