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(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.
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.
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