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An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.

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  1. n. An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.
  2. n. a turner with a narrow flexible blade
  3. n. a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances
  4. An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.
  5. An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhatflexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs incompounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.
  6. n:100 n. a turner with a narrow flexible blade n. a hand tool with a thin flexible blade used to mix or spread soft substances