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Volume 15 · 90 words · 1810 Edition

in Medicine, a palsy of the bladder, wherein the urine is either suppressed or discharged involuntarily.

TARGETING, in building, is used for the plastering of walls, and sometimes for plaster itself.

Targeting is of various kinds: 1. White lime and hair mortar laid on bare walls. 2. On bare laths, as in partitioning and plain ceiling. 3. Rendering the inside of walls, or doubling partition walls. 4. Roughcasting on heart laths. 5. Plastering on brick work, with finishing mortar, in imitation of stone work; and the like upon heart laths.