n. [ OF. pute. ] A prostitute. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball. “A forced put.” L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A certain game at cards. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (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 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To steer; to direct one's course; to go. [ 1913 Webster ]

His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] 1. 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). [ 1913 Webster ]

His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

This present dignity,
In which that I have put you. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will put enmity between thee and the woman. Gen. iii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

He put no trust in his servants. Job iv. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

When God into the hands of their deliverer
Puts invincible might. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the mean time other measures were put in operation. Sparks. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. Wyclif (John xv. 13). [ 1913 Webster ]

5. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us now put that ye have leave. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Put the perception and you put the mind. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

All this is ingeniously and ably put. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. [ 1913 Webster ]

These wretches put us upon all mischief. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Put case, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. [ 1913 Webster ]

Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

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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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coming from thee, I could not put him back. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sugar hath put down the use of honey. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

(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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

We might put him off with this answer. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

(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. [ 1913 Webster ]

For the certain knowledge of that truth
I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(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 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign. Bramston. [ 1913 Webster ]

What droll puts the citizens seem in it all. F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Pit. ] A pit. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. putage. ] Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Bot.) The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. putanisme, fr. putain harlot. ] Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry. [ 1913 Webster ]