PASTE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin pasta dough, ~ Date: 14th century 1. a dough that contains a considerable proportion of fat and is used for pastry crust or fancy rolls, a confection made by evaporating fruit with sugar or by flavoring a gelatin, starch, or gum arabic preparation, a smooth food product made by evaporation or grinding , a shaped dough (as spaghetti or ravioli) prepared from semolina, farina, or wheat flour, a soft plastic mixture or composition: as, a preparation usually of flour or starch and water used as an adhesive or a vehicle for mordant or color, clay or a clay mixture used in making pottery or porcelain, a brilliant glass of high lead content used for the manufacture of artificial gems, II. transitive verb (~d; pasting) Date: circa 1562 to cause to adhere by or as if by ~ ; stick , to cover with something ~d on, III. transitive verb (~d; pasting) Etymology: alteration of baste Date: 1846 to strike hard at, to beat or defeat soundly