Putty

[Put·ty]

Putty is the clay like substance you can use to fill holes in a wall before painting it, or to secure a piece of glass in a window frame.

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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.

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"


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.


Putty

Put"ty , n. [F. pot'82e, fr. pot pot; what was formerly called putty being a substance resembling what is now called putty powder, and in part made of the metal of old pots. See Pot.] 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. Putty powder, an oxide of tin, or of tin and lead in various proportions, much used in polishing glass, metal, precious stones, etc.

Putty

Put"ty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Puttied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Puttying.] To cement, or stop, with putty.

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.

To cement, or stop, with putty.

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