Put
Put , noun
[See Pit.]
A pit. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Put , third person singular present
Put , noun
[Compare Welsh 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.
Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.
What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.
Put , transitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon potian to thrust: compare Danish putte to put, to put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to Welsh pwtio to butt, poke, thrust; compare also Gael. put to push, thrust, and English 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).
His chief designs are... to put thee by from thy spiritual employment.
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.
This present dignity,
In which that I have put you.
I will put enmity between thee and the woman.
He put no trust in his servants.
When God into the hands of their deliverer
Puts invincible might.
In the mean time other measures were put in operation.
3.
To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
4.
To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obsolete]
No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
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.
Let us now put that ye have leave.
Put the perception and you put the mind.
These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.
All this is ingeniously and ably put.
6.
To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
These wretches put us upon all mischief.
Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense.
Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.
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.
8.
(Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. — Raymond
Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live.
Coming from thee, I could not put him back.
Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down.
Sugar hath put down the use of honey.
I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue.
We might put him off with this answer.
For the certain knowledge of that truth
I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother.
Collocations (1)
Put case , formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be.
Put (put; often put in def. 3) , intransitive verb
1.
To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obsolete] — Bacon
2.
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
3.
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
Collocations (12)
To put about (Nautical) , to change direction; to tack.
To put back (Nautical) , to turn back; to return. The French... had put back to Toulon.
To put forth , (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. — Shakespeare
To put in (Nautical) , 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 (Nautical) , to sail over or across.
To put to sea (Nautical) , 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. [Obsolete] With this he put up to my lord.
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.
Put , noun
1.
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
A forced put.
2.
A certain game at cards. — Young
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]
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.
Put , noun
[Old French pute.]
A prostitute. [Obsolete]