putter 
from whii-h it i- raised to the surface; on* who 
transports coal on any underground road. Also 
railed liaitlier, drawer, ami ii-mmm r. [Kittle, if 
at all, used in tin- I'liitc-.l States.] 3. One who 
puts or throws, especially a stone: as, he is 
but a poor putter. [In this sense pronounced 
put 'IT in Scotland.] 
Fame saying that Troy trains vp approved ioni 
In deedi of anus, hraue puttert-ntt of shafts. 
For winging lance*, masters of their crafts. 
Chapman, Odyssey, xvliL Ml 
4 (put't-r). In ijnlf-plnying, a club with a stiff 
anil comparatively short shaft, generally used 
wlii-n tin- hull is on the putting-green. 'putter 
on. (a) One who urges. Instigates, or Incites; an Instiga- 
tor or Incltor. 
They rent reproaches 
Most bitterly on you. as putter on 
Of these exactions. Shale., lien. VIII., I. _. 24. 
(6) One who puts or places something on something else. 
-Putter out. formerly, one who deposited money on go- 
ing abroad, on condition of receiving a very much largei 
mini on his return, the money being forfeited In case of 
bis non-return. This mode of gambling was practised in 
the relgiis of F.llzalwth and James I. (in dangerous expe- 
dition* the money received was sometimes as much as five 
pounds for every pound deposited. 
Or thnt there were such men 
Whose heads stood In their breasts'? which now we find 
Each putter-out of five for one will bring us 
Hood warrant of. Shnk , Tempest, 111. S. 4*. 
putter 2 (put'er), r. '. A variant at potter"*. 
Uea abed Sunday morning, and gi'ts up late to puller 
with the furnace. The Century, XXVI. ass. 
putti (put'ti), n. pi. [It., pi. of puttn, a lit- 
tle child, < L. pitta*, a boy, child: nee pupift.] 
Representations of Cupid-like nude children 
common in the art of the fifteenth and follow- 
ing centuries, especially in Italy. 
puttier (put'i-er), n. [< putty, r., 4- -/rl.] One 
who putties; one who fills up or cements with 
putty, us n glazier. 
Cracked old houses where the painters and plumbers 
and putlyen lire always at work. 
Thadrrrau. Lovel the Widower, II. 
putting-green (put'ing-gren), . That part of 
a golfing-ground which surrounds a hole: it is 
usually carefully prepared and preserved. 
Some of the puMng-yr?en* (at St. Andrews] arc not 
what they should he, ... lint others, again, are things of 
beauty. The green of the "hole o' cross" Is probably tin- 
liest In all the world of golf. 
GnJ/ (Badminton Library), p. 813. 
putting-Stone (put'ing-ston). n. In Scotland. 
a heavy stone to be thrown with the hand, 
raised and thrust forward from the shoulder: 
chiefly used in gymnastic exercises or athletic 
sports. 
She lifted the heavy putling-aane, 
And gave a sad " I ilion ! " 
Rout tht lied and While l.Oly (Child's Ballads, V. 177). 
putto, n. See puttoo. 
puttock (put 'ok), ii. [< ME. puttnlc. potnk ; 
origin uncertain.] A kind of hawk, (a) The 
kite or glede. Milru* npalit. (b) The common hiitzard, 
Ittitft) mUgarit. 
The Hen which when the Pvttndtt hath caught hlr 
chekln beglnneth to cackle. 
Lilly, Euphnes. Anat f Wit, p. >. 
Who finds the partridge In the putloet't nest 
But may Imagine how the bird was dead, 
Although the kite soar with unbloodled beak? 
Sltat., 2 Hen. VI., Ill 2. 191. 
puttoo (put'o), n. [Also putto; < Hind. pattu.] 
A fabric made in Cashmere and neighboring 
countries of the longer and coarser wool of 
the goat, after the fine and soft undergrowth 
has oeen separated from it. See cashmere 
xlinirl, under rimhrnere. Also called Cashgar 
rlnth. 
putty (put'i), M. [< OF. poter, brnss. copper, 
tin, etc., calcined, also a potful, K. jmtfe, pow- 
dered tin, oxid, putty, also a potful, < not, a 
pot: see pofl. Ct.potiii, pnttnin, /nit-metal.'} 1. 
A kind of paste or cement compounded of whit- 
ing, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed-oil, 
mixed to the consistence of dough. In this state 
It Is used by glaziers for fixing the panes of glass In win- 
dow-saahes. etc., and also by honne-palnteni to stop up 
hole* and cavltle In woodwork before painting. It Is of 
ten tinted with various pigments to make It agree In color 
with the surface on which It Is used. 
2. A powder of i-:ili-incil tin, used in polishing' 
glass and steel: sometimes ralled.;VirY/< / *' />n/ty. 
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 care- 
fully prepared, and so completely macerated as to be held 
in solution In water, which Is allowed to evaporate till It 
I) of sufficient consistence for working. Is called putty, 
plasterers' putty. WoHnkap RrttipU, 1st ser, p. in. 
4868 
4. A mixture of ground materials in which in 
potteries earthenware is dipped for glazing. 
6. A mixture of clay and horse-dung used in 
making molds in foundries. Glycerin putty, a 
kind of putty, more properly a cement, made of glycerin 
and litharge. 
putty (put'i). r. 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 re- 
sembling putty in pastiness or color. 
putty-knife (put'i-nif ), n. A knife with a blunt. 
puzzle 
In 6 Henry VIII. (lb\t) puture was paid for the forest 
which was reclaimed towards the close of that reign. 
Bainrn, Hist. Lancashire, II. K. 
ptud (puk'si), w. [Mex. Ind.] The limn- of 
the various dipterous insects of the genus 
Putty kniv, 
flexible blade, used by glaziers for laying on 
putty ; K stopping-knife. 
putty-powder (put'i-pou'det), . An artifi- 
cially prepared oxid of tin (SnOj), sometimes 
mixed with oxid of lead (PbO), used for polish- 
ing glass and other substances. 
puttyroot (put'i-rdt), M. An American orchid, 
Apltctriini liirmtili. producing every year on 
slender rootstock a conn an inch in diameter, 
filled with an extremely glutinous matter, which 
has been used as a cement, whence the name. 
t. upper part of flowering *ca|>e : a. a leaf from a liulh nf the sea 
ion. sWing attachment t ' " 
Puxi Fly {Efhydra ralt/omtta), 
( l,ine shows natural fife. } 
Puttyroot \.Af!tftrtim t 
K vr.i|ie : a. a I 
in btill, of preceding season ; t, fruiting 
Each conn persists till there are three or four horizontally 
M iniM <-t. .1. The newest sends up, late In summer, a sin- 
gle 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 Adntn anil 
KM. 
putty-work (put'i-werk), . 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 thin material In Italy In the six- 
teenth 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; spe- 
ciously conceived, planned, or carried out: as. 
a put-tip job. [Collo<j.] 
"Well, master," said Blathers. . . . " this warn't a put- 
up thing." "And what the derll 's a put-up thing? de- 
manded the doctor impatiently, "we call It a put-up 
. 
riihlii-ry. ladles," said Blathers, turning to them as If IK 
pitied their Ignorance, but had a contempt for the doctor's, 
"when the servants Is In It. " 
IHrken*. Oliver Twist, Mil. (Darvn.1 
pnture, pulture (pu'tur, pul'tur), . [< OF. 
lit-iitiirr. /ni/iiri , pinitiiri-. i>tnre, pulture, food, 
nourishment, < ML. 'pull urn, i>ntnra, food, pot- 
tage, < L. pain (putt-), a thick broth or pottage: 
nee 7>i 2 .] 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 perambula- 
tion of the forest, hundred, etc. 
inhabit the al- 
kali lakes of 
western North 
America, and 
are made into 
edible cakes : 
so called by 
Mexican In- 
dians and 
Spanish Amer- 
icans. See 
Ephydra, aliu- 
ntlf, and koo- 
chalttee. 
puy 1 , ". Same 
as ptiy. 
puy 2 (pwe), n. 
[F. puy : see pay, ;>pir 2 .] One of the small vol- 
canic cones which are common in Auvergne, 
central France. 
It Is a most striking sight to see the small cones or Puui 
of the later date, of which there are not fewer than 290, 
still looking as fresh and perfect as though they had been 
in eruption within the present century. 
Prertvich, OeoL, I. 363. 
Pnya 1 (pu'ya), w. [NL. (Molina. 1782), from a 
native name in Chili.] A genus of monocoty- 
ledonous plants of the order Brmnelinceee, un- 
like the rest of its tribe Pitrairnieie in its locu- 
licidal, not septicidal, dehiscence, and other- 
wise characterized by a filiform style, three- 
valved capsule, and numerous seeds surrounded 
by a wing. There are S or 4 species, natives of Tern 
and Chill. They bear narrow spiny leaves crowded at the 
base or apex of the unhranched and sometimes arbores- 
cent stem, and a terminal simple or pyramidally com- 
pound raceme, with a single showy flower under each 
bract. Several species are in cultivation under glass, 
sometimes under the former name J'inirretia, Including 
white and yellow, and less often blue, pink, and green 
flowering varieties. See chagual gum, under gum*. 
puya- (pfj'yft), . 1. See pooa. 2. A textile 
filter yielded by the pooa. 
puyssancet, puyssantt. Middle English forms 
of puissance, puixsunt. 
puzzelt, n. [Appar. < OF. purelle, a girl, maid: 
see nucclte. Some compare It. puzzolenti', fil- 
thy.] A dirty drab. 
Pucelle or puzzrl, dolphin or dogfish. 
Shale., 1 Hen. VI., I. 4. 107. 
Xo, nor yet any droyle nrpuzzel in the country but will 
carry a nosegay In her hand. 
Stubbet, Anat. of Abuses. (A'orw.) 
puzzle (puz'l), M. [By apheresis, as if "pozel. 
'posal, from early mod. E. opposal, oppoxeVe, np- 
poselte, < ME. opposayle, a question put, < >y>- 
posen, appourn, E. oppose, bv apheresis pose, 
question: see oppose &r\i\poi^.'] 1. A difficult 
question or problem; specifically, a riddle, or 
n 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 thlrty.fold, . . . 
1 yet should strike upon a sudden means 
To dig, pick, open, find, and read the charm. 
Tennywm, Merlin and Vivien. 
2. Embarrassment; perplexity: as, to be in a 
puzzle, or in a state of puzzle. 
puzzle (puz'l), r. ; pret. and pp. puzzlrrl, ppr. 
puzzling. [< puzzle, .] I. trans. 1. To per- 
plex 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 
flaltlc Sea upon the King's Service, otherwise I would 
have ventured upon an Kplthalnmfum. 
Hawll, Letters, II. 72. 
A very shrewd disputant In those points is dexterous In 
puzzling others. Dr. II More, Divine Dialogues. 
Von meet him under that name Incognito ; then, If an 
accident should happen, both yon and she may be safe, 
and jnizzle the truth. Steelt, Lying Lover, II. 1. 
2. To entangle ; make intricate. 
The ways of heaven are dark and Intricate, 
Puzzledin mazes and perplex'd with error. 
A<l<li*>H. Cato, I. 1. 
They disentangle from the puzzled fkeln . . . 
The threads of politic and shrewd derlgn 
That ran through all his purposes. 
Ctnrprr, Task, III. 146. 
3. To resolve or discover by long cogitation 
or careful investigation; make out by mental 
labor; cogitate: with out. 
He endeavoured to puzzle its princlpb nut for himself. 
(HadtUmt. 
