Put

·noun A certain game at cards.

II. Put ·noun A Pit.

III. Put ·Impf & ·p.p. of Put.

IV. Put ·noun A Prostitute.

V. Put ·vi To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.

VI. Put ·noun A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.

VII. Put ·vi To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

VIII. Put ·- 3d pers. ·sg ·pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.

IX. Put ·vt To lay down; to give up; to Surrender.

X. Put ·vt To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.

XI. Put ·noun The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.

XII. Put ·vi To Steer; to direct one's course; to Go.

XIII. Put ·vt To attach or attribute; to Assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.

XIV. Put ·noun 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.

XV. Put ·vt 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.

XVI. Put ·vt To Incite; to Entice; to Urge; to Constrain; to Oblige.

XVII. Put ·vt 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).

XVIII. Put ·vt 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.

XIX. Put ·vt 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.