put 
1 shall be put iiuwlllliiKly to inolMt the publlck rlew 
with the vindication of private name. 
Jluton, Apology for Suiectyiunuus. 
4. To place, set, lay, deposit, bring, or cause to 
be in any position, place, or situation. 
Sume patten Wax In Oyle of the Wode of the fruyt of 
Bawme, and seyn that It U Bawme. 
Jlanderille, Travels, p. 61. 
I'aduce If that the fruyte be, cleef the roote. 
And fiutte In hit a stoone. 
PaUadiun, Hiuboudrie (E. I.. X. 8.), p. '.u. 
And the Lord God planted u gal-den eastward In Eden ; 
and there he put the man whom he had formed. 
Gen. U.K. 
You put aharp weapons in a madman's hands. 
Shalt., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 847. 
The aquavlUe was put aboard by my brother J'eter's 
order, without my appointment. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 47. 
I went to the Sheik's house, and carried the letter I had 
from the Mhefk of Furshout. When he knew who it wan 
from, he klss'd the letter and put it to hia forehead, which 
1s a mark of great respect. 
Pocoeke, Description of the East, I. 113. 
lint alt beside my bed, mother, and put your hand in mine. 
Tennyton, May Queen, Conclusion. 
6. To set in some particular way or course; 
instigate; urge; incite; entice. 
If your Majesty be not Popish, as yon profesae, and I am 
very willing to beleeve, why doe you put the 1'arllament 
to resume the Sacrament of the Altar? 
A". Ward, Simple tobler, p. !. 
It might have put him upon some dangerous design of 
surprising our ship*. 
Wiiillurop, Hist Sew England, II. 135. 
6. To cause, or cause to be ; bring or place in 
some specified state or condition: as, to put 
one in mind; toi>ut to shame; to ;<todeath; 
to put one out of pain; to put in motion; toput 
in order ; to put to inconvenience. 
It Is playnly your purpos to put you to detbe. 
With suehe fyndes to tight till ye fay worthe. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 57. 
I'm me In a surety with thee. Job xvil. 3. 
But a we were allowed of God to be put in trust with 
the gospel, even so we speak. 1 Thes. II. 4. 
This question ask'd 
/'"' me In doubt. Milton, P. L., iv. 886. 
This last Storm put our Men quite out of heart. 
Dampier, Voyages. I. 43U. 
Kecently, he had been a public lecturer on Mesmerism, 
for which science (as he assured Phojbe, and, indeed, sat- 
isfactorily proved by puttinff Chanticleer, who happened 
to be Hcratching near by, to sleep) he had very remarkable 
endowments. llau-thorne, Seven Gables, xli. 
'Yes, sir," murmured Polly, put to blush by the appa- 
rition. Uarper't May., LXXIX. 9S). 
7. To assign ; set, as to a task or the doing of 
something: as, to put men to work. 
And for my cnrtesle I was put to the Soudenya house 
>V was made vastier of halle, 
Political Poenu, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. IS. 
The women, as the weaker sort, be put to the easier 
crafts : as to work wool and Hax. 
.Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), U. 4. 
It was not till the yeare IBM that I was put to learnc 
my Latlne rudiments, and to write of one Cltnlln, a French- 
man, In Lewes. Kcelyn, Diary, p. 8. 
8. To set or propose for consideration, delib- 
eration, judgment, reply, acceptance, or re- 
jection; propound; propose; offer; state as a 
hypothesis or proposition: as, to put a case 
(see phrases below); to put a question ; toput 
it to one to say. 
I put It to the common sense of all of you . . . whether 
any great body of the conquered people could have lived 
on In their former dwelling places through such a con- 
quest as this. E. A. freeman, Amer. Lecta., p. 131. 
The questions which the Indians put betray their rea- 
son and their ignorance. 
Emenuii, Hist. Discourse at Concord. 
9. To state ; express ; phrase. 
Stupidly put; Inane is the response. 
Brotrninj, Ring and Book, II. OU. 
A thought ' his who kindles new youth in it, 
Or so putt It u makes It more true. 
Lowell, Franclscus de Verulamlo. 
The old Hydrous appears as a Oreek colony, placed, as 
one of the old geographer happily put* It, on the mouth 
either of the Hadriatlc or of the Ionian sea. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. SIS. 
10. To render; do; turn; translate. 
I hT put thin Boke out of Latyn Into Frensche, and 
translated It aieu out of Frenschc Into F.nglyMche. 
MaiuleciUe, Travels, p. 6. 
80 did euery scholer A secular clerke or versifier, when 
he wrote any short poeine or matter of good lesson, put It 
In ryme. Puttruham, Arte of Eng. I'oealc, p. 10. 
lit. To posit; affirm. 
The true faith putUUt the reurrectlon, which we be 
wanted to liwk for every hour. The heathen philosophers, 
denying timt did put tnnt the souls did ever lire. 
Tuiuiale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (barker Soc., I860), p. 180. 
12. To apply: use. 
4864 
And the comoun I'cple. that wolde inttte here Bodyes 
and here Catelle for to conquere ouie Heritage, thel ma> 
not don It withouten the Lordes. 
Mamlerille, Travels, p. X 
The Mayor, Ac. |of Bristol I, approve the ordinances (of 
fullersl, and put thereto the Common Seal of the City, in 
September, 1408. Eiujlith Oild (E. E. T. &.\ p. 2811. 
The great difference in the notions of mankind is from 
the different use they put their faculties to. Locke. 
In truth it is rare for me to put pen to paper for private 
correspondence, so much fa my time and attention en- 
grossed by public business. 
George H aihiuytoit, To Col. Sam'l Washington, quoted 
lln X. A. Rev., CXLIII. 482. 
13f. To lay down; give up; surrender. 
No man hath more loue than this, that a man putte hia 
lyf for hiae frendis. H'.v*' John xv. I. 1 !. 
Put It In assay t. See assay. Put the case, elliptlcally 
put case, suppose the case to be ; suppose. 
But put the cane, in travel I may meet 
Some gorgeous structure, a brave frontispiece, 
shall I stay captive in the outer court? 
L. Joiuon, New Inn, ill. 
Put case our author should, once more, 
Swear that his play were good. 
/; .A.,/...,,, Poetaster, 1ml 
Put the cage, I was a gentleman (which, thank God, no 
one can say of me) ; well my honour makes me quarrel 
with another gentleman of my acquaintance. 
Slutridan, The Rivals, Iv. 1. 
To be put to it, to be hard pressed or tried ; be driven to 
extremities ; be embarrassed ; be hampered. 
Others of them were worse put to it, wher they were 
faine to eate doggs. toads, and dead men. and BO dyed al- 
most all. Bradford, Plymouth limitation, p. 137. 
The pathway was here also exceeding narrow, and there- 
fore good Christian iratr the more put to it ; for when he 
sought in the dark to shun the ditch on the one hand, he 
was ready to tip over into the mire on the other. 
I'.tiitnti >t, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 13-. 
To be put to one's trumps, to be driven to one s re- 
sources or endeavor. To put a bone In any one's 
hood . See bone I . To put about, (a) If out . , to reverse 
the course of. (/>) To put to inconvenience, trouble, an- 
noyance, bewilderment, or embarrassment : as, he was 
much put ii'iMit by that occurrence. 
''Nay," pleaded Jeremiah. "Thee ait sorry for what 
thee said ; thee were sore put about, or thee wouldn't have 
said It." Mrs. (Jatkett, Sylvia's Lovers, xxxvi. 
tn To publish; declare: circulate. [Colluq.] 
Put it about in the right quarter that you'll buy queer 
bills by the lump. Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ii. 5. 
To put all one's eggs into one basket, a nail in one's 
coffin, an ape in one's hood*. See eng>, coffin, ape. 
To put an end to. see end. To put a stop to. Sec 
atop. To put away, (at) To drive away ; remove ; expel. 
This oyle. that Is to st-le quinta essencia of gold, hath the 
mooste swetnes and virtu to a-swage and putte awei the 
ache of wouiidis. 
Boole of Quinte Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 1". 
Henry the Fifth put aicay the Friars, Aliens, and selz'd 
to himself 100,OOW. a year. Seltleit, Table-Talk, p. Ib. 
(6) To renounce ; discard. 
/'"' """'/ the gods which your fathers served. 
Josh. ulv. 14. 
(c) To divorce. 
Is it lawful for n man tuputairay his wile? . . . Moses 
offered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her 
aicau. Mark x. 2, 4. 
(((t) To dispose of. 
He took two skins and a half. . . . which he carried to 
Mr Cutting s ship, and put it nimy there for twenty-four 
shillings. fPinOarop, Hist. New England. II. 420. 
By reason some Hollanders, and others, hail bin there 
lately before him. who carried away with them all the To- 
bacco he was forced to put aicay all hia commodities upon 
trust till the next crop. 
Quoted In Capf. John Smith's Works, II. 271. 
TO put back, (a) To hinder ; delay. (*) To restore to 
the original place, (r) To set, as the hands of a clock, to 
an earlier time, (rf) To refuse ; say nay to. 
Coming from thee, I could not put him back. 
Shale., Lucrece, 1. W3. 
To put by. (a) To turn away : divert. 
Watch and resist the devil : his chief designs are to hin- 
der thy desire In good, to put thee '-// from thy spiritual 
employment. Jer. Taylor, 
(b) To set or thrust aalde. 
Just God, put by tli unnatural blow. 
Coutey, Davldels, iii. 
The chancellor, sedate and vain, 
In courteous words return'd reply, 
But dallied with his golden chain. 
And, smiling, put the question by. 
Tenni/son, Day-Dream, The Revival. 
(r) To place in safe keeping : save or store up : as, "to put 
by something for a rainy day." To put down, (a) To 
repress ; crush ; suppress. 
The great feast at Whitehall was on Tuesday, where Is 
unspeakable bravery; but the Duke of Chevreusepuf duvni 
ours. Court and Times of Charla /., I. 87. 
sir Peter Is such an enemy to scandal, I believe he would 
have It put dotcn by parliament. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, ii. 2. 
(6) To degrade ; deprive of authority, power, or place, (r) 
To defeat ; put to rout ; overcome ; excel. 
The Spaniards, notwithstanding they are the Masters of 
the Staple of Jewels, stood astonished at the Beauty of 
these, and confessed themselves to be put down. 
HtndU, Letter*, I. Iv. 1. 
put 
(<ft) To bring into disuse. 
Sugar hath put doicn the use of honey. 
Here Is no trading, carriers from moat places put dourne ; 
nor no receiving of any money, though long due. 
Sherley, quoted in Bradford's I'lymoulh Plantation, p. 845. 
() To confute ; silence. 
Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you doicn. 
Sha*., 1 Hen. IV., u, 4. 2B1. 
As 1 live, madam, you put them all doicn 
With your mere strength of judgment. 
Ii. Jonson, Catiline, II. 1. 
(/) To write, as in a subscription-list or in a program : as, 
to put one's name doicn for a handsome sum ; to put one 
doicn for a toast or a speech, (y) To give up ; do without 
[Eng.] 
He had set himself not only toput dotcn his carriage, but 
. . . to ortler the whole establishment on the sparest foot- 
ing possible. Qeorye Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xxlv. 
TO put forth, (a) To stretch out ; reach. 
ye put forth his hand, and took her. Gen. vill. 0. 
(b) To shoot out ; send forth or out, as a sprout. 
A standard of a damask rose with the root on was set 
. . . upright In an earthen pan full of fair water without 
any mixture : . . . within the space of ten days the stan- 
dard did put forth a fair green leaf. 
Bajonii. Nat Hist, i 407. 
(c) To exert ; bring into action. 
Virgil puttfth himself forth to attribute to Augustus i H- - 
sar the best of human honours. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, 1. 7. 
In honouring God, putfortli all thy strength. 
Jer. Tayl>n: 
(l) To propose ; offer. 
Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto 
you. Judges xiv. 12. 
At their request he put forth him selfe to make a trial! 
... of his skill. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 211 
i To issue ; publish. 
1 am not yet fully determined with myself whether ! 
will put forth niy book or no. 
Sir T. More, Utopia. Ded. to Peter Giles, p. 11. 
The proposed Congress, commonly called the "Stamp- 
Act Congress," . . . also put /urtA a declaration of colonial 
rights, acknowledging allegiance to the crown, and claim- 
ing "all the inherent rights and privileges of natural-bom 
subjects within the kingdom of Great Britain." 
A. Johnston, Encyc. Brit., X.MII. 73*. 
To put forth one's hand against, see hand. - To put 
heads together. See to lay heads together, under Znj/'. 
To put in. (a) To hand in ; present. 
He is toput in his answer the 13th of January. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 06. 
(6) To introduce among others ; interpose. 
Give me leave to put in a word, to tell you that 1 am 
glad you allow us different degrees of worth. 
Jeremy Collier. 
(c) To insert : as, to pitt in a pnssage or clause ; to put in a 
scion, c/i To appoint to an office. 
The archbishop i* put in by the patriarch of Constanti- 
nople, and the metropolitan makes the bishops, who put 
in the parish pi tests 
Pocoeke, Description of the East, II. 1. 207. 
To put In an appearance, to put in or into commis- 
sion, to put in mind, to put in pledge, to put in prac- 
tice. See the nouns. To put in the pin. Seepinl. 
He had two or three times resolved to better himself 
and to put in the pin, meaning he had made a vow to re- 
frain from drinking. 
Mayhem, London Labour and London Poor, I. 845. 
To put Off. (a) To push ofl from land ; push out Into tin- 
water. 
Two of them going out of the boat, he caused the boats 
men toput o^the boat 
H'intArpp, Hist New England, I. 370. 
(b) To palm off ; pass fraudulently ; foist 
The Natives are for putting of bad Money, if possibly 
they can. Dumpier, Voyages, 11. i. 181. 
It Is the hardest case in the world that Mr. steele should 
take up the artificial reports of his own faction, and then 
put them o/iipon the world as " additional fears of a pop- 
ish successor. Su^ft, Public Spirit of the Whigs, 
(cl) To dispose of, as by barter or sale : sell. 
In y midds of these distractions, they of l.eyden, who 
had put of their estats, and laid out then* moneys, were 
brought Into a greate streight 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 45. 
These ships, by reason of their short passage, had store 
of provisions left, which they put of at easy rates, viz. 
biscuit at 2U. the hundred ; beef at 11 the hogshead, ete. 
Winthrop. Hist New England, I. 169. 
(<f) To take off or lay aside ; dofl. 
None of us put of our clothes. V-li. Iv. 23. 
II ell about me, 
Behind me, and before me: yet I dare not, 
Still fearing worse, put ii/my wretched living. 
Beau, and h'l . Knight of Malta, Iv. 1. 
could hee put / Ids body with his Huh c -,.-,!,.. be had 
got eternitie without a burthen, and exchang'd but one 
Hi mien for mother. 
lip. Earle, Mlcro-cosniographle, A Child. 
() To dismiss ; discard. 
The kyng to the komyns carplt agayne ; 
Toput <>/ that purpoa he naynet hym sore. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), I. 11410. 
The clothiers all ... put of 
The nplnsUrs, carders, fullers, weavers. 
VAai., Hen. VIII., L 2. as. 
