Putty

['pʌtɪ]

Definition

(noun.) a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil; used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass.

(verb.) apply putty in order to fix or fill; 'putty the window sash'.

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Definition

(n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.

(v. t.) To cement, or stop, with putty.

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Definition

n. an oxide of tin or of lead and tin used in polishing glass &c.—jewellers' putty: a cement of whiting and linseed-oil used in glazing windows: a fine cement of lime only—plasterers' putty.—v.t. to fix or fill with putty:—pa.t. and pa.p. putt′ied.—n. Putt′ier a glazier.—adj. Putt′y-faced having a face resembling putty in pastiness or colour.—ns. Putt′y-knife a knife with a blunt flexible blade for laying on putty; Putt′y-pow′der an artificially prepared oxide of tin used for polishing glass; Putt′y-root an American orchid the corm of whose root-stock contains a highly glutinous matter; Putt′y-work decoration in a soft substance which grows very hard.

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