The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . Puxi Fly \Ephydra calt/oritica).{Line sliows natural size.) Putty-knives. flexible blade, used by glaziers for laying onputty; a stopping-knife. putty-pcwder (puti-pouder), . An artifi-cially prepared oxid of tin (SnOo), sometimesmixed with oxid of lead (PbO), used for polish-ing glass and other substances. puttyroot (pufi-riit), Ji. An American orchid,Aphetriim liiemrilc, producing every year on aslender rootstock a corm an inch in diameter,filled with an ex
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . Puxi Fly \Ephydra calt/oritica).{Line sliows natural size.) Putty-knives. flexible blade, used by glaziers for laying onputty; a stopping-knife. putty-pcwder (puti-pouder), . An artifi-cially prepared oxid of tin (SnOo), sometimesmixed with oxid of lead (PbO), used for polish-ing glass and other substances. puttyroot (pufi-riit), Ji. An American orchid,Aphetriim liiemrilc, producing every year on aslender rootstock a corm an inch in diameter,filled with an extremely glutinous matter, whichhas been used as a cement, whence the Puttyroot {Ap/ecfriim Jiitntale).1, upper part of flowering scape: z, a from a bulb of the attachment to bulb of preceding season; 3, fruiting son, siscape. Each corm persists till there are three or fotu horizontallyconnected. The newest sends up, late in summer, a sin-gle much-veined and plaited leaf, which lasts through thewinter, and in spring a scape a foot or more high, with aloose raceme of brownish flowers. Also called Adam and putty-work (puti-werk), n. Decoration bymeans of a composition in which ornamentsare modeled while it is soft, and which growsvery hard. Colfers, lucturc-ffiones, shrines, etc., wereelaborately decorated in tliis niateiial in Italy in the six-teenth ami seventeenth centuries, rtdor being often addedto the ornaments in relief. put-up (putup), a. Concocted or planned byintimates or insiders, but so as to tiiipear toemanate from or be the work of others; spe-ciously eonceivetl, planned, or carried out: as,a jiut-up job. [CoUoq.] Well, m
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