Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PUT'TY, n. [Sp. and Port. potea.]

1. A kind of paste or cement compounded of whiting or soft carbonate of lime and lintseed oil, beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough; used in fastening glass in sashes and in stopping crevices.
2. A powder of calcined tin, used in polishing glass and steel. – Encyc.