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slovo definícia To put to (gcide) 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). [1913 Webster] His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] This present dignity, In which that I have put you. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I will put enmity between thee and the woman. --Gen. iii. 15. [1913 Webster] He put no trust in his servants. --Job iv. 18. [1913 Webster] When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. --Milton. [1913 Webster] In the mean time other measures were put in operation. --Sparks. [1913 Webster] 3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression. [1913 Webster] 4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. --Wyclif (John xv. 13). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Let us now put that ye have leave. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley. [1913 Webster] These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. --Milton. [1913 Webster] All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare. [1913 Webster] 6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. [1913 Webster] These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. --Raymond. [1913 Webster] Put case, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. [1913 Webster] Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Coming from thee, I could not put him back. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] We might put him off with this answer. --Bentley. [1913 Webster] (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. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. To put on or To put upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." --L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] "This came handsomely to put on the peace." --Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. "That which thou puttest on me, will I bear." --2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. "The stork found he was put upon." --L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. "This caution will put them upon considering." --Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. --Burrill. To put out. (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. --Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. (l) to engage in sexual intercourse; -- used of women; as, she's got a great bod, but she doesn't put out. [Vulgar slang] To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. [1913 Webster] For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river. To put the hand to or To put the hand unto. (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft. "He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods." --Ex. xxii. 11. To put through, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] To put to. (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another. (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the state to hazard. "That dares not put it to the touch." --Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. --Dickens. To put to a stand, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. To put to death, to kill. To put together, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one. To put this and that (or two and two) together, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. To put to it, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. "O gentle lady, do not put me to 't." --Shak. To put to rights, to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly. To put to the sword, to kill with the sword; to slay. To put to trial, or on trial, to bring to a test; to try. To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] "Such national injuries are not to be put up." --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." --Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. --Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Syn: To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state. Usage: Put, Lay, Place, Set. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object. [1913 Webster]

podobné slovo definícia To put to a stand (gcide) 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). [1913 Webster] His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] This present dignity, In which that I have put you. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I will put enmity between thee and the woman. --Gen. iii. 15. [1913 Webster] He put no trust in his servants. --Job iv. 18. [1913 Webster] When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. --Milton. [1913 Webster] In the mean time other measures were put in operation. --Sparks. [1913 Webster] 3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression. [1913 Webster] 4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. --Wyclif (John xv. 13). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Let us now put that ye have leave. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley. [1913 Webster] These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. --Milton. [1913 Webster] All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare. [1913 Webster] 6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. [1913 Webster] These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. --Raymond. [1913 Webster] Put case, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. [1913 Webster] Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Coming from thee, I could not put him back. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] We might put him off with this answer. --Bentley. [1913 Webster] (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. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. To put on or To put upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." --L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] "This came handsomely to put on the peace." --Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. "That which thou puttest on me, will I bear." --2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. "The stork found he was put upon." --L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. "This caution will put them upon considering." --Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. --Burrill. To put out. (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. --Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. (l) to engage in sexual intercourse; -- used of women; as, she's got a great bod, but she doesn't put out. [Vulgar slang] To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. [1913 Webster] For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river. To put the hand to or To put the hand unto. (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft. "He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods." --Ex. xxii. 11. To put through, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] To put to. (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another. (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the state to hazard. "That dares not put it to the touch." --Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. --Dickens. To put to a stand, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. To put to death, to kill. To put together, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one. To put this and that (or two and two) together, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. To put to it, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. "O gentle lady, do not put me to 't." --Shak. To put to rights, to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly. To put to the sword, to kill with the sword; to slay. To put to trial, or on trial, to bring to a test; to try. To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] "Such national injuries are not to be put up." --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." --Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. --Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Syn: To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state. Usage: Put, Lay, Place, Set. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object. [1913 Webster] To put to a stress (gcide) Stress \Stress\, n. [Abbrev. fr. distress; or cf. OF. estrecier to press, pinch, (assumed) LL. strictiare, fr. L. strictus. See Distress.] 1. Distress. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Sad hersal of his heavy stress. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance. [1913 Webster] The faculties of the mind are improved by exercise, yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their strength. --Locke. [1913 Webster] A body may as well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] 3. (Mech. & Physics) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress. --Rankine. [1913 Webster] Stress is the mutual action between portions of matter. --Clerk Maxwell. [1913 Webster] 4. (Pron.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, [sect][sect] 31-35. [1913 Webster] 5. (Scots Law) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained. [1913 Webster] Stress of voice, unusual exertion of the voice. Stress of weather, constraint imposed by continued bad weather; as, to be driven back to port by stress of weather. To lay stress upon, to attach great importance to; to emphasize. "Consider how great a stress is laid upon this duty." --Atterbury. To put stress upon, or To put to a stress, to strain. [1913 Webster] To put to bed (gcide) 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). [1913 Webster] His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] This present dignity, In which that I have put you. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I will put enmity between thee and the woman. --Gen. iii. 15. [1913 Webster] He put no trust in his servants. --Job iv. 18. [1913 Webster] When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. --Milton. [1913 Webster] In the mean time other measures were put in operation. --Sparks. [1913 Webster] 3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression. [1913 Webster] 4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. --Wyclif (John xv. 13). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Let us now put that ye have leave. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley. [1913 Webster] These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. --Milton. [1913 Webster] All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare. [1913 Webster] 6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. [1913 Webster] These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. --Raymond. [1913 Webster] Put case, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. [1913 Webster] Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Coming from thee, I could not put him back. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] We might put him off with this answer. --Bentley. [1913 Webster] (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. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. To put on or To put upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." --L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] "This came handsomely to put on the peace." --Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. "That which thou puttest on me, will I bear." --2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. "The stork found he was put upon." --L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. "This caution will put them upon considering." --Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. --Burrill. To put out. (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. --Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. (l) to engage in sexual intercourse; -- used of women; as, she's got a great bod, but she doesn't put out. [Vulgar slang] To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. [1913 Webster] For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river. To put the hand to or To put the hand unto. (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft. "He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods." --Ex. xxii. 11. To put through, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] To put to. (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another. (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the state to hazard. "That dares not put it to the touch." --Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. --Dickens. To put to a stand, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. To put to death, to kill. To put together, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one. To put this and that (or two and two) together, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. To put to it, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. "O gentle lady, do not put me to 't." --Shak. To put to rights, to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly. To put to the sword, to kill with the sword; to slay. To put to trial, or on trial, to bring to a test; to try. To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] "Such national injuries are not to be put up." --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." --Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. --Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Syn: To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state. Usage: Put, Lay, Place, Set. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object. [1913 Webster] To put to death (gcide) 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). [1913 Webster] His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] This present dignity, In which that I have put you. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I will put enmity between thee and the woman. --Gen. iii. 15. [1913 Webster] He put no trust in his servants. --Job iv. 18. [1913 Webster] When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. --Milton. [1913 Webster] In the mean time other measures were put in operation. --Sparks. [1913 Webster] 3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression. [1913 Webster] 4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. --Wyclif (John xv. 13). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Let us now put that ye have leave. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley. [1913 Webster] These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. --Milton. [1913 Webster] All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare. [1913 Webster] 6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. [1913 Webster] These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. --Raymond. [1913 Webster] Put case, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. [1913 Webster] Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Coming from thee, I could not put him back. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] We might put him off with this answer. --Bentley. [1913 Webster] (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. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. To put on or To put upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." --L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] "This came handsomely to put on the peace." --Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. "That which thou puttest on me, will I bear." --2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. "The stork found he was put upon." --L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. "This caution will put them upon considering." --Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. --Burrill. To put out. (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. --Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. (l) to engage in sexual intercourse; -- used of women; as, she's got a great bod, but she doesn't put out. [Vulgar slang] To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. [1913 Webster] For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river. To put the hand to or To put the hand unto. (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft. "He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods." --Ex. xxii. 11. To put through, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] To put to. (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another. (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the state to hazard. "That dares not put it to the touch." --Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. --Dickens. To put to a stand, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. To put to death, to kill. To put together, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one. To put this and that (or two and two) together, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. To put to it, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. "O gentle lady, do not put me to 't." --Shak. To put to rights, to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly. To put to the sword, to kill with the sword; to slay. To put to trial, or on trial, to bring to a test; to try. To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] "Such national injuries are not to be put up." --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." --Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. --Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Syn: To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state. Usage: Put, Lay, Place, Set. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object. [1913 Webster] To put to flight (gcide) Flight \Flight\ (fl[imac]t), n. [AS. fliht, flyht, a flying, fr. fle['o]gan to fly; cf. flyht a fleeing, fr. fle['o]n to flee, G. flucht a fleeing, Sw. flykt, G. flug a flying, Sw. flygt, D. vlugt a fleeing or flying, Dan. flugt. [root]84. See Flee, Fly.] 1. The act of flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying. [1913 Webster] Like the night owl's lazy flight. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape danger or expected evil; hasty departure. [1913 Webster] Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. --Matt. xxiv. 20. [1913 Webster] Fain by flight to save themselves. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Lofty elevation and excursion; a mounting; a soaring; as, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly. [1913 Webster] Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy. --Byron. [1913 Webster] His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 4. A number of beings or things passing through the air together; especially, a flock of birds flying in company; the birds that fly or migrate together; the birds produced in one season; as, a flight of arrows. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Swift flights of angels ministrant. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Like a flight of fowl Scattered winds and tempestuous gusts. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. A series of steps or stairs from one landing to another. --Parker. [1913 Webster] 6. A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Challenged Cupid at the flight. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 7. The husk or glume of oats. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright. [1913 Webster] 8. a trip made by or in a flying vehicle, as an airplane, spacecraft, or aeronautical balloon. [PJC] 9. A scheduled flight[8] on a commercial airline; as, the next flight leaves at 8 o'clock. [PJC] Flight feathers (Zool.), the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See Bird. To put to flight, To turn to flight, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout. to take a flight[9], to make a trip in an airplane, especially a scheduled flight[9]. [1913 Webster + PJC] Syn: Pair; set. See Pair. [1913 Webster] To put to grass (gcide) Barnyard grass, for hay. South. Panicum Grus-galli. Bent, pasture and hay. Agrostis, several species. Bermuda grass, pasture. South. Cynodon Dactylon. Black bent. Same as {Switch grass} (below). Blue bent, hay. North and West. {Andropogon provincialis}. Blue grass, pasture. Poa compressa. Blue joint, hay. Northwest. Aqropyrum glaucum. Buffalo grass, grazing. Rocky Mts., etc. (a) Buchlo["e] dectyloides. (b) Same as Grama grass (below). Bunch grass, grazing. Far West. Eriocoma, Festuca, Stips, etc. Chess, or Cheat, a weed. Bromus secalinus, etc. Couch grass. Same as Quick grass (below). Crab grass, (a) Hay, in South. A weed, in North. Panicum sanguinale. (b) Pasture and hay. South. Eleusine Indica. Darnel (a) Bearded, a noxious weed. Lolium temulentum. (b) Common. Same as Rye grass (below). Drop seed, fair for forage and hay. Muhlenbergia, several species. English grass. Same as Redtop (below). Fowl meadow grass. (a) Pasture and hay. Poa serotina. (b) Hay, on moist land. Gryceria nervata. Gama grass, cut fodder. South. Tripsacum dactyloides. Grama grass, grazing. West and Pacific slope. {Bouteloua oligostachya}, etc. Great bunch grass, pasture and hay. Far West. Festuca scabrella. Guinea grass, hay. South. Panicum jumentorum. Herd's grass, in New England Timothy, in Pennsylvania and South Redtop. Indian grass. Same as Wood grass (below). Italian rye grass, forage and hay. Lolium Italicum. Johnson grass, grazing and hay. South and Southwest. {Sorghum Halepense}. Kentucky blue grass, pasture. {Poa pratensis}. Lyme grass, coarse hay. South. Elymus, several species. Manna grass, pasture and hay. Glyceria, several species. Meadow fescue, pasture and hay. Festuca elatior. Meadow foxtail, pasture, hay, lawn. North. Alopecurus pratensis. Meadow grass, pasture, hay, lawn. Poa, several species. Mesquite grass, or Muskit grass. Same as Grama grass (above). Nimble Will, a kind of drop seed. Muhlenbergia diffsa. Orchard grass, pasture and hay. Dactylis glomerata. Porcupine grass, troublesome to sheep. Northwest. Stipa spartea. Quaking grass, ornamental. Briza media and maxima. Quitch, or Quick, grass, etc., a weed. Agropyrum repens. Ray grass. Same as Rye grass (below). Redtop, pasture and hay. Agrostis vulgaris. Red-topped buffalo grass, forage. Northwest. Poa tenuifolia. Reed canary grass, of slight value. Phalaris arundinacea. Reed meadow grass, hay. North. Glyceria aquatica. Ribbon grass, a striped leaved form of {Reed canary grass}. Rye grass, pasture, hay. Lolium perenne, var. Seneca grass, fragrant basket work, etc. North. Hierochloa borealis. Sesame grass. Same as {Gama grass} (above). Sheep's fescue, sheep pasture, native in Northern Europe and Asia. Festuca ovina. Small reed grass, meadow pasture and hay. North. {Deyeuxia Canadensis}. Spear grass, Same as Meadow grass (above). Squirrel-tail grass, troublesome to animals. Seacoast and Northwest. Hordeum jubatum. Switch grass, hay, cut young. Panicum virgatum. Timothy, cut young, the best of hay. North. Phleum pratense. Velvet grass, hay on poor soil. South. {Holcus lanatus}. Vernal grass, pasture, hay, lawn. Anthoxanthum odoratum. Wire grass, valuable in pastures. Poa compressa. Wood grass, Indian grass, hay. Chrysopogon nutans. [1913 Webster] Note: Many plants are popularly called grasses which are not true grasses botanically considered, such as black grass, goose grass, star grass, etc. [1913 Webster] Black grass, a kind of small rush (Juncus Gerardi), growing in salt marshes, used for making salt hay. Grass of the Andes, an oat grass, the {Arrhenatherum avenaceum} of Europe. Grass of Parnassus, a plant of the genus Parnassia growing in wet ground. The European species is {Parnassia palustris}; in the United States there are several species. Grass bass (Zool.), the calico bass. Grass bird, the dunlin. Grass cloth, a cloth woven from the tough fibers of the grass-cloth plant. Grass-cloth plant, a perennial herb of the Nettle family (B[oe]hmeria nivea syn. Urtica nivea), which grows in Sumatra, China, and Assam, whose inner bark has fine and strong fibers suited for textile purposes. Grass finch. (Zool.) (a) A common American sparrow ({Po["o]c[ae]tes gramineus}); -- called also vesper sparrow and bay-winged bunting. (b) Any Australian finch, of the genus Po["e]phila, of which several species are known. Grass lamb, a lamb suckled by a dam running on pasture land and giving rich milk. Grass land, land kept in grass and not tilled. Grass moth (Zool.), one of many small moths of the genus Crambus, found in grass. Grass oil, a fragrant essential volatile oil, obtained in India from grasses of the genus Andropogon, etc.; -- used in perfumery under the name of citronella, {ginger grass oil}, lemon grass oil, essence of verbena etc. Grass owl (Zool.), a South African owl (Strix Capensis). Grass parrakeet (Zool.), any of several species of Australian parrots, of the genus Euphemia; -- also applied to the zebra parrakeet. Grass plover (Zool.), the upland or field plover. Grass poly (Bot.), a species of willowwort ({Lythrum Hyssopifolia}). --Johnson. Crass quit (Zool.), one of several tropical American finches of the genus Euetheia. The males have most of the head and chest black and often marked with yellow. Grass snake. (Zool.) (a) The common English, or ringed, snake ({Tropidonotus natrix}). (b) The common green snake of the Northern United States. See Green snake, under Green. Grass snipe (Zool.), the pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata}); -- called also jacksnipe in America. Grass spider (Zool.), a common spider (Agelena n[ae]via), which spins flat webs on grass, conspicuous when covered with dew. Grass sponge (Zool.), an inferior kind of commercial sponge from Florida and the Bahamas. Grass table. (Arch.) See Earth table, under Earth. Grass vetch (Bot.), a vetch (Lathyrus Nissolia), with narrow grasslike leaves. Grass widow. [Cf. Prov. R. an unmarried mother, G. strohwittwe a mock widow, Sw. gr[aum]senka a grass widow.] (a) An unmarried woman who is a mother. [Obs.] (b) A woman separated from her husband by abandonment or prolonged absence; a woman living apart from her husband. [Slang.] Grass wrack (Bot.) eelgrass. To bring to grass (Mining.), to raise, as ore, to the surface of the ground. To put to grass, To put out to grass, to put out to graze a season, as cattle. [1913 Webster] To put to it (gcide) 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). [1913 Webster] His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] This present dignity, In which that I have put you. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I will put enmity between thee and the woman. --Gen. iii. 15. [1913 Webster] He put no trust in his servants. --Job iv. 18. [1913 Webster] When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. --Milton. [1913 Webster] In the mean time other measures were put in operation. --Sparks. [1913 Webster] 3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression. [1913 Webster] 4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. --Wyclif (John xv. 13). [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Let us now put that ye have leave. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley. [1913 Webster] These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. --Milton. [1913 Webster] All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare. [1913 Webster] 6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. [1913 Webster] These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. --Raymond. [1913 Webster] Put case, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. [1913 Webster] Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. --Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Coming from thee, I could not put him back. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] (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. [1913 Webster] I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle. [1913 Webster] We might put him off with this answer. --Bentley. [1913 Webster] (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. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. To put on or To put upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." --L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] "This came handsomely to put on the peace." --Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. "That which thou puttest on me, will I bear." --2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. "The stork found he was put upon." --L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. "This caution will put them upon considering." --Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit to; as, a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. --Burrill. To put out. (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. --Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. (l) to engage in sexual intercourse; -- used of women; as, she's got a great bod, but she doesn't put out. [Vulgar slang] To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army. (b) To refer. [1913 Webster] For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. --Shak. [1913 Webster] (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river. To put the hand to or To put the hand unto. (a) To take hold of, as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as, to put one's hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft. "He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods." --Ex. xxii. 11. To put through, to cause to go through all conditions or stages of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation; he put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] To put to. (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another. (b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the state to hazard. "That dares not put it to the touch." --Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. --Dickens. To put to a stand, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. To put to death, to kill. To put together, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one. To put this and that (or two and two) together, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. To put to it, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. "O gentle lady, do not put me to 't." --Shak. To put to rights, to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly. To put to the sword, to kill with the sword; to slay. To put to trial, or on trial, to bring to a test; to try. To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] "Such national injuries are not to be put up." --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." --Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. --Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang] [1913 Webster] Syn: To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state. Usage: Put, Lay, Place, Set. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place. To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object. [1913 Webster] To put to nurse (gcide) Nurse \Nurse\ (n[^u]rs), n. [OE. nourse, nurice, norice, OF. nurrice, norrice, nourrice, F. nourrice, fr. L. nutricia nurse, prop., fem. of nutricius that nourishes; akin to nutrix, -icis, nurse, fr. nutrire to nourish. See Nourish, and cf. Nutritious.] 1. One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm. [1913 Webster] 2. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. [1913 Webster] The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 3. (Naut.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place. [1913 Webster] 4. (Zool.) (a) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. (b) Either one of the nurse sharks. [1913 Webster] Nurse shark. (Zool.) (a) A large arctic shark (Somniosus microcephalus), having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also sleeper shark, and ground shark. (b) A large shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins. To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, to send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse. Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse, in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster]