Put \Put\ (put; often p[u^]t in def. 3), v. i.

1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.]

--Bacon.

2. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. --Dryden.

3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Put \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.]

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. --Jer. Taylor.

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. --Chaucer.

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

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

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

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

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. [Obs.]

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

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. --Chaucer.

Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley.

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

All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare.

6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift.

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

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

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, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be.

Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. --Bp. Hall.

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.

Coming from thee, I could not put him back. --Shak.
   (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.

Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. --Shak.

Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon.
   (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.

I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle.

We might put him off with this answer. --Bentley.
   (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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)