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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.

The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight.

but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc.

covering a crack in a metallic vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast.

Same as Putty, a kind of gaiter.

g to turn over and over; as, to roll a sheet of paper; to roll parchment; to roll clay or putty into a ball.

neral cassiterite. It is used in the manufacture of white enamels, and, under the name of putty powder, for polishing glass, etc.

The finishing of joints along the center lines with a narrow ridge of putty or fine lime mortar.

lpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc. Whiting pollack. (Zoöl.) Same as Pollack. -- Whiting pout (Zoöl.), the bib, 2.