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PUTTY

Volume 17 · 54 words · 1823 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 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.