SG Heritage Dictionary

Putty [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A kind of paste or cement compounded of whiting and linseed oil, beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough; used in fastening glass in sashes and in stopping crevices.

2. A powder of calcined tin, used in polishing glass and steel.

Putty [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cement, or stop, with putty.

Putty Encyclopedia Britannica

PUTTY is a kind of cement composed of fine powdered chalk intimately mixed with linseed oil, either boiled or raw, to the consistency of a tough dough. It is principally used by glaziers for bedding and fixing sheets of glass in windows and other frames, by joiners and painters for filling up nail-holes and other inequalities in the surface of wood-work, and by masons for bedding ashlar-work. The oxidation of the oil gradually hardens putty into a very dense adherent mass. When putty is required to dry quickly, boiled oil and sometimes litharge and other driers are used. “Putty powder” or “polisher’s putty” is oxide of tin in a state of fine division used for the polishing of glass, hard metals, granite, and similar substances.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 20, p. 118
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Putty-faced [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

White-faced; -- used contemptuously.

Puttying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Putty

Puttyroot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.