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A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole.

Same as Putty, a kind of gaiter.

One who puts or plates.

An instigator. Shak.

One who putties; a glazier.

etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game. Putting stone, a heavy stone used in the game of putting.

The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.

The European kite.

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.

White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke.

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.

so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. Congreve.

One who sputters.

abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand. [Colloq.]

Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam.

Removal; a putting away. [Obs.] Bp. Ward (1673).

The putting of one case for another.