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. (e) To push from land;
as, to put off a boat. -- To put on or 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. -- 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.
For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven
and to my mother.
Shak.
(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 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]
Syn. -- To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state. -- 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.
Put (put; often pt in def. 3), v. i. 1. To go or move; as, when the air
first puts up. [Obs.] Bacon.