·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.