\Put\, n. [See {Pit}.]
A pit. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

\Put\, obs.
3d pers. sing. pres. of {Put}, contracted from putteth.
--Chaucer.

\Put\, n. [Cf. W. pwt any short thing, pwt o ddyn a squab of
a person, pwtog a short, thick woman.]
A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
      Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.
                                               --Bramston.
      What droll puts the citizens seem in it all. --F.
                                               Harrison.

\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

\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.
{To put up to}, to advance to. [Obs.] ``With this he put up
   to my lord.'' --Swift.
{To put up with}.
   (a) To overlook, or suffer without recompense, punishment,
       or resentment; as, to put up with an injury or
       affront.
   (b) To take without opposition or expressed
       dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad
       fare.

\Put\, n.
1. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a
   push; as, the put of a ball. ``A forced put.''
   --L'Estrange.
2. A certain game at cards. --Young.
3. A privilege which one party buys of another to ``put''
   (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc.,
   at a certain price and date. [Brokers' Cant]
         A put and a call may be combined in one instrument,
         the holder of which may either buy or sell as he
         chooses at the fixed price.           --Johnson's
                                               Cyc.

\Put\, n. [OF. pute.]
A prostitute. [Obs.]