Pu"tage (?; 48), n. [OF. putage.] Prostitution or fornication on the
part of a woman.
||Pu*ta"men (?), n. [L.] (Bot.) The shell of a nut; the stone of a
||drupe fruit. See Endocarp.
Pu"tan*ism (?), n. [F. putanisme, fr. putain harlot.] Habitual lewdness
or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.
Pu"ta*tive (?), a. [L. putativus, fr. putare, putatum, to reckon,
suppose, adjust, prune, cleanse. See Pure, and cf. Amputate, Compute,
Dispute, Impute.] Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as,
the putative father of a child. "His other putative (I dare not say
feigned) friends." E. Hall.
Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became
customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurped
authority.
Jer. Taylor.
Put*chuck" (?), n. (Bot.) Same as Pachak.
||Pu"te*al (?), n. [L., fr. puteus well.] (Arch.) An inclosure
||surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well
||curb. Weale.
||Put"e*li (?), n. Same as Patela.