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PUTTY

Volume 15 · 53 words · 1797 Edition

in its popular sense, is a kind of paste compounded of whiting and linseed oil, beaten together to the consistence of a thick dough.

It is used by glaziers for fastening in the squares of glass in sash-windows, and by painters for stopping up the crevices and clefts in timber and wainscots, &c.