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Definition of Puttylike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puttylike
Literary usage of Puttylike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Maryland Historical Magazine by Maryland Historical Society (1918)
"which the amalgam, or puttylike mass of quicksilver and gold is disengaged from
the other worthless matter. The surplus quicksilver is then literally ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"Parts of each specimen should be wet to see if they are clayey, that quality
showing quickly in the puttylike adhesiveness when rubbed between the fingers. ..."
3. The Glory of the Coming: What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1918)
"His feet rested comfortably in an ankle- deep solution, very puttylike in its
consistency, and compounded of the rains of heaven and the ..."
4. The Soils and Agriculture of the Southern States by Hugh Hammond Bennett (1921)
"Here a very marked degree of unproductiveness obtains, which appears to be due
to the presence of an intractable, puttylike clay lying near the surface, ..."
5. A Text-book of the Diseases of Women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1897)
"It is true, numerous autopsies have proved that pus can become inspissated in
the tubes to a puttylike mass, and, on the other hand, ¡i can probably, ..."
6. A Text-book of the Diseases of Women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1900)
"It is true, numerous autopsies have proved that pus can become inspissated in
the tubes to a puttylike mass, and, on the other hand, it can probably, ..."
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