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PUTTY n. 2 definitions
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-FACED a.
White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke.
PUTTYROOT n.
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.
AMPUTATE v. 2 definitions
To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.
AMPUTATION n.
The act amputating; esp. the operation of cutting of a limb or projecting part of the body.
AMPUTATOR n.
One who amputates.
ANTIPUTREFACTIVE; ANTIPUTRESCENT a.
Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.
CAJEPUT n.
See Cajuput.
CAJUPUT n.
volatile infammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is greenish in color and has a camphoraceous odor and pungent taste.
CAJUPUTENE n.
A colorlees or greenish oil extracted from cajuput.
CAMARA; CAMARA DOS PARES; CAMARADOS DEPUTADOS n.
Chamber; house; -- used in Ca"ma*ra dos Pa"res, and Ca"ma*ra dos De`pu*ta"dos. See Legislature.
CAPUT n. 3 definitions
l or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. Your caputs and heads of colleges. Lamb. Caput mortuum (. Etym: [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.
COMPUTABLE a.
Capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned. Not easily computable by arithmetic. Sir M. Hale.
COMPUTATION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon.
COMPUTE v. 2 definitions
To determine calculation; to reckon; to count. Two days, as we compute the days of heaven. Milton. What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. Burns.
COMPUTER n.
One who computes.
COMPUTIST n.
A computer.
DEPUTABLE a.
Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy. Carlyle.
DEPUTATION n. 2 definitions
The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency. The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. South.
DEPUTATOR n.
One who deputes, or makes a deputation. [R.] Locke.
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