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Put , n. [See Pit.] A pit. [Obs.]Chaucer.

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Put, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.Chaucer.

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Put , n. [Cf. W. pwt any short thing, pwt o ddyn a squab of a person, pwtog a short, thick woman.] A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
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Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.
Bramston.

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What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.
F. Harrison.

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Put , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Put; p. pr. & vb. n. Putting.] [AS. potian to thrust: cf. Dan. putte to put, to put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to W. pwtio to butt, poke, thrust; cf. also Gael. put to push, thrust, and E. potter, v. i.]To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).
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His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment.
Jer. Taylor.

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To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.
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This present dignity,
In which that I have put you.
Chaucer.

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I will put enmity between thee and the woman.
Gen. iii. 15.

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He put no trust in his servants.
Job iv. 18.

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When God into the hands of their deliverer
Puts invincible might.
Milton.

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In the mean time other measures were put in operation.
Sparks.

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To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
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To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.]
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No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
Wyclif (John xv. 13).

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To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.
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Let us now put that ye have leave.
Chaucer.

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Put the perception and you put the mind.
Berkeley.

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These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.
Milton.

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All this is ingeniously and ably put.
Hare.

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To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
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These wretches put us upon all mischief.
Swift.

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Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense.
Sir W. Scott.

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Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.
Milton.

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To throw or cast with a pushing motion “overhand,” the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.
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(Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.Raymond.

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Put case, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be.
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Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live.
Bp. Hall.

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 -- To put about (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship. -- To put away. (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce. -- To put back. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny.
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Coming from thee, I could not put him back.
Shak.

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(c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour. (d) To restore to the original place; to replace. -- To put by. (a) To turn, set, or thrust, aside. “Smiling put the question by.” Tennyson. (b) To lay aside; to keep; to sore up; as, to put by money. -- To put down. (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down. (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices. (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to suppress; to abolish; to confute; as, to put down rebellion or traitors.
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Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down.
Shak.

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Sugar hath put down the use of honey.
Bacon.

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(d) To subscribe; as, to put down one's name. -- To put forth. (a) To thrust out; to extend, as the hand; to cause to come or push out; as, a tree puts forth leaves. (b) To make manifest; to develop; also, to bring into action; to exert; as, to put forth strength. (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like. (d) To publish, as a book. -- To put forward. (a) To advance to a position of prominence or responsibility; to promote. (b) To cause to make progress; to aid. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to a later hour. -- To put in. (a) To introduce among others; to insert; sometimes, to introduce with difficulty; as, to put in a word while others are discoursing. (b) (Naut.) To conduct into a harbor, as a ship. (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court. Burrill. (d) (Med.) To restore, as a dislocated part, to its place. -- To put off. (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality. “Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.” Ex. iii. 5. (b) To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate; to baffle.
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I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue.
Boyle.

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We might put him off with this answer.
Bentley.

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(c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as, to put off repentance. (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. -- To put on or To put upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. “Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.” L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] “This came handsomely to put on the peace.” Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. “That which thou puttest on me, will I bear.” 2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. “The stork found he was put upon.” L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. “This caution will put them upon considering.” Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. Burrill. -- To put out. (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. (l) to engage in sexual intercourse; -- used of women; as, she's got a great bod, but she doesn't put out. [Vulgar slang] -- To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer.
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For the certain knowledge of that truth
I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother.
Shak.

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(c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river. -- To put the hand to or To put the hand unto. (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft. “He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.” Ex. xxii. 11. -- To put through, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] -- To put to. (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another. (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the state to hazard. “That dares not put it to the touch.” Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. Dickens. -- To put to a stand, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. -- To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. -- To put to death, to kill. -- To put together, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one. -- To put this and that (or two and two) together, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. -- To put to it, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. “O gentle lady, do not put me to 't.” Shak. -- To put to rights, to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly. -- To put to the sword, to kill with the sword; to slay. -- To put to trial, or on trial, to bring to a test; to try. -- To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. -- To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] “Such national injuries are not to be put up.” Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. “She has been frightened; she has been put up.” C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. “Himself never put up any of the rent.” Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. -- To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang]
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Syn. -- To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state.  -- Put, Lay, Place, Set. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object.
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Put , v. i.To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.]Bacon.

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To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
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His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
Dryden.

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To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
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To put about (Naut.), to change direction; to tack. -- To put back (Naut.), to turn back; to return. “The French . . . had put back to Toulon.” Southey. -- To put forth. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. “Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.” Bacon. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. Shak. -- To put in (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port. -- To put in for. (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share of profits. (b) To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a hawk. (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for. Locke. -- To put off, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore. -- To put on, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently. -- To put over (Naut.), to sail over or across. -- To put to sea (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to advance into the ocean. -- To put up. (a) To take lodgings; to lodge. (b) To offer one's self as a candidate. L'Estrange. -- To put up to, to advance to. [Obs.] “With this he put up to my lord.” Swift. -- To put up with. (a) To overlook, or suffer without recompense, punishment, or resentment; as, to put up with an injury or affront. (b) To take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad fare.
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Put , n.The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball. “A forced put.” L'Estrange.

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A certain game at cards.Young.

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(Finance) A privilege which one party buys of another to “put” (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date. [Brokers' Cant]
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A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
Johnson's Cyc.

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Put , n. [OF. pute.] A prostitute. [Obs.]
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