PUTTY, in its popular sense, is a kind of paste compounded of whiting and lint-feed oil, beaten together to the consistence of a thick dough.
It is used by glaziers for the fastening in the squares of glass in sash-windows, and by painters for stopping up the crevices and clefts in timber and wainscots, &c.
PURRY sometimes also denotes the powder of calcined tin, used in polishing and giving the last gloss to works of iron and steel.