putty (put i)

[ 2. A powder of oxid of tin, used in polishing gla and steel: sometimes called jewelers ' putty. -3. A very fine cement, used by plasterers and stone-masons, made of lime only. See the quotation. Fine stuff [mortar made of fine white lime) very carefully prepared, and so completely macerated as to be held in solution in water, which is allowed to evaporate till it is of sufficient consistence for working, is called putty , plasterers' putty . Workshop Receipts , 1st ser., p. 121. 4868 puzzle In 6 IHenry VIII. (1514) puture was paid for the forest which was reclaimed towards the close of that reign. and litharge. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia putty (put'i), v . t .; pret. and pp. puttied , ppr. puttying . [ putty , n.] To cement with putty; fill up with putty. putty-eye (put'i-i), n. A name given by pigeon fanciers to the eyes of pigeons which have a thick orbit of a fleshy character. putty-faced (put'i-fast), a. Having a face resembling putty in pastine or color. putty-knife (put'i-nīf), n. A knife with a blunt, 118 2 IMG:content-1357.png:[blocks in formation] Each corm persists till there are three or four horizontally connected. The newest sends up, late in summer, a single much-veined and plaited leaf, which lasts through the winter, and in spring a scape a foot or more high, with a loose raceme of brownish flowers. Also called Adam and Eve . putty-work (put'i-werk), n. Decoration by means of a composition in which ornaments are modeled while it is soft, and which grows very hard. Coffers, picture-frames, shrines, etc., were elaborately decorated in this material in Italy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, color being often added to the ornaments in relief. put-up (put'up), a. Concocted or planned by intimates or insiders, but so as to appear to emanate from or be the work of others; speciously conceived, planned, or carried out: as, a put - up job. [Colloq.] "Well, master," said Blathers.... "this warn't a put up thing." "And what the devil's a put - up thing?" demanded the doctor impatiently. "We call it a put - up robbery, ladies," said Blathers, turning to them as if he pitied their ignorance, but had a contempt for the doctor's, "when the servants is in it." Dickens, Oliver Twist, xxx i. ( Davies .) puture, pulture (pu'tür, pultūr), n. [ peuture , puture , pouture , poture , pulture , food, nourishment, pultura , putura , food, pottage, puls ( pult- ), a thick broth or pottage: see pulse2 .] A custom claimed by keepers in forests, and sometimes by bailiffs of hundreds, to take food for man, horse, and dog from the tenants and inhabitants within the perambulation of the forest, hundred, etc. Baines , Hist. Lancashire, II. 25. [Mex. Ind.] The larvæ of the various dipterous insects of the genus Ephydra , which inhabit the al kali lakes of western North America, and are made into edible cakes: so called by Mexican Indians and Spanish Americans. Ephydra , ahu atle, and koochahbee. puy1, n. See Same as poy . puy2 (pwē), n. Puxi Fly (Ephydra californica). (Line shows natural size.) [F. puy : see poy , pew2 .] One of the small volcanic cones which are common in Auvergne, central France. It is a most striking sight to see the small cones or Puys of the later date, of which there are not fewer than 230, still looking as fresh and perfect as though they had been in eruption within the present century. Prestwich , Geol., I. 363. Puyal (pū'yä), n . [NL. (Molina, 1782), from a native name in Chili.] A genus of monocotyledonous plants of the order like the Bromeliace , un licidal, not septicidal, dehiscence, and other wise characterized by a fil i for me style, the valved capsule, and by a wings Thermosound and Chili. They bear narrow spiny leaves crowded at the base or apex of the unbranched and sometimes arborescent stem, and a terminal simple or pyramidally compound raceme, with a single showy flower under each bract. Several species are in cultivation under gla , sometimes under the former name Pour retia , including white and yellow, and le often blue, pink, and green flowering varieties. See chagual gum , under gum2 . puy a2 (pū'yä), n . 1. See poo a .-2. A textile fiber yielded by the poo a. puy ancet, puy antt. Middle English forms of pui ance , pui ant . puzzelt, n. [Appar. pucelle , a girl, maid: see pucelle . Some compare It. puzzolente , filthy.] A dirty drab. Pucelle or puzzel , dolphin or dogfish. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 4. 107. No, nor yet any droyle or puzzel in the country but will carry a nosegay in her hand. Stubbes , Anat. of Abuses. ( Nares .) puzzle (puz'l), n. [By apheresis, as if * pozel , * posal , from early mod. E. opposal , opposelle , ap poselle , opposayle , a question put, ор posen , apposen , E. oppose , by apheresis pose , question: see oppose and pose3 .] 1. A difficult question or problem; specifically, a riddle, or a toy or contrivance which is designed to try one's ingenuity. Keep it like a puzzle , chest in chest, With each chest lock'd and padlock'd thirty-fold,. I yet should strike upon a sudden means To dig, pick, open, find, and read the charm. Tennyson , Merlin and Vivien. 2. Embarra ment; perplexity: as, to be in a puzzle , or in a state of puzzle . puzzle (puz'l), v.; pret. and pp. puzzled , ppr. puzzling . [ puzzle , n.] I. trans. 1. To perplex or pose with or as with difficult points, problems, or questions; put to a stand; gravel. My Thoughts are now puzzled about my Voyage to the Baltic Sea upon the King's Service, otherwise I would have ventured upon an Epithalamium. Howell, Letters, ii. 72. A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others. Dr. H. More, Divine Dialogues. You meet him under that name incognito; then, if an accident should happen, both you and she may be safe, and puzzle the truth. Steele , Lying Lover, ii. 1. 2. To entangle; make intricate. The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes and perplex'd with error. Add is on , Cato, i. 1. They disentangle from the puzzled skein... The threads of politic and shrewd design That ran through all his purposes. Cowper , Task, iii. 145. 3. To resolve or discover by long cogitation or careful investigation; make out by mental labor; cogitate: with out . He endeavoured to puzzle its principle out for himself. Gladstone. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1359.png:[blocks in formation] wilder, stagger. II. in trans. To be bewildered; be perplexed or posed. "And now," he cried, "I shall be pleased to get Beyond the Bible - there I puzzle yet." Crabbe. puzzle-cup (puz'l-kup), n. Same as surprise сир . A two-handled puzzle - cup painted with flowers. Hamilton Sale Catalogue , 1882, No. 806. puzzledom (puz'l-dum), n. [ puzzle + -dom .] A puzzled or perplexed condition; bewilderment. [Colloq.] I was resolved to travel with him into the land of puzzle dom . Richardson , Clari a Harlowe, VL. 367. ( Davies .) The wonderful interior of the double basilica opens upon us. The first feeling is simply puzzledom . E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 79.