Put(v. t.)
- 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).
Put(v. t.)
- 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.
Put(v. t.)
- To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
Put(v. t.)
- To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
Put(v. t.)
- 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.
Put(v. t.)
- To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
Put(v. t.)
- 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.
Put(v. t.)
- To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
Put(v. i.)
- To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
Put(v. i.)
- To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
Put(v. i.)
- To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
Put(n.)
- The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.