Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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