pnt- 
lilt (ell lines upon a time 
They putted at the stane : 
And seven foot ajrond them a 
Brown Knhin '> iiar'd It gang. 
KOK Uu Bed and White LtUy (Child'. Ballads, V. 1T8). 
To put away for (nout ), to start to go to : as, to put away 
fur norae after a cruise. To put fair, to bid (air. 
And heluul put fair for It, bad not death prevented him, 
lii- which hi life and projects were cut off together. 
l/ei/tiit. Hist. Presbyterians, p. 130. (Damet.) 
To put for. to start for ; especially, to get In resohHe 
motion toward with decided purpose and vigorous ac- 
tion: as, to put fur home; to put Jar the shore. To put 
forth, (o) To shoot; bud; germinate. 
Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
Then the flowers put forth and spring, and then the- 
Sunne shall scatter the mists. 
MUlun, Church-Oovernment, 1. B. 
() To set out ; depart. 
Order for sea is given ; 
They have put forth the haven. 
Shak., A. andC., iv. 10. 7. 
To put forward*, to hasten on. 
I am willing to put forward as fast as my beast will give 
ni leave, though I fear nothing in your company. 
Cotton, in Walton's Angler, II. 228. 
To put in. (o) .Vatd., to enter a port or harbor ; espe- 
cially, to deTlate from the regular course to seek shelter 
from storms, or to refit, procure provisions, etc. : as, the 
ship /"' in to Charleston. 
We sailed for Mytllene, but pat in the first evening at 
Cardamllla in Sclo, where I pitched my tent, and lay all 
night, and the next evening arrived at the port of Mytilene. 
Poeodce, Description of the East, II. ii. 14. 
(6) To call at and enter a place, as a house of refreshment 
We took horse, and got early to Baldwick, where there 
was a fair, and we put in, and eat a mouthful! of porke, 
which they made us pay it'/, for, which vexed me much. 
Pepyt, Diary, I. 220. 
(e) To dash into covert for safety, as a bird when hard 
pressed by a hawk. (/) To Interpose. 
He has . . . kicked me three or four times about the 
tiring-house . . . for but offering to put in with my ex- 
perience. B. Jongon, Bartholomew Fair, Ind. 
And although astrology may here put in, and plead the 
secrett Influence of this star [the dog-star] . . . 
r T. Brmcnt, Vulg. Err., iv. IS. 
To put in for, to put in a claim for; make application 
for; seek to obtain. 
Jacob had suffered patiently the direction of those that 
governed hint, so long as the excuse of his minority was a 
good one. Kut, l>elng now arrived at the age of 17, he be- 
gan to put in by degrees for his share in the direction of 
affairs. Bnice, Source of the Nile, II. 241. 
.Many most unfit persons are now putting in for that 
place. Abp. U&her, Letters, cxvl. 
To put off, to leave land ; sail off. 
Let me cut the cable, 
And, when we are /-"' o/, fall to their throats. 
Shalt., A. and ('., 1L 7. 7*. 
To put on, to move or hasten on. 
So put on, my brave hoy, und make the best of thy way 
to Boulogne. Strrnr, Tristram Shandy, vii. 6. 
We furf on pretty fast ; the janizary, and guide to whom 
the horses belonged, frequently looking back In the ut- 
most consternation, lest they should end after us, and 
injure us some way or other. 
/.-...'.. Description of the East, II. II. a5. 
To put out. (n) Saut., to start ; sail. (6) To leave sud- 
denly; be off; get out. (c) In tanning morocco leather, 
to remove small fragments of flesh still adhering to the 
flesh-tide of the tunned skins, and at the same time to 
stretch anil smooth the skins. Formerly done almost ex 
cluslvely by hand-labor, this operation is now largely per- 
formed by putting-out machines. TO put over, (a) To 
sail over or across, (b) To remove her meat from the gorge 
into the stomach : said of a hawk. To put up. (a) To 
take lodgiugs; lodge. (6) To offer one's self as a candi- 
date. 
The bcafctB met I" chuse a king, when several put up. 
Wr K. l.'Kttranye. 
(<r) To sheath the sword ; cease from further contest. 
Troth, 111 put up at all adventures, master : 
It comes on* very fair yet. 
Middleton (and othen). The Widow, I. . 
(d) To pay down or stake money. {Slang, t T . S. ) To put 
up to, to advance to ; approach. [Rare. ] 
With this he put up to my lord ; 
The courtiers kept their distance due. Siri.fl. 
To put up With, to bear without resentment or repining ; 
tolerate: as to put up irith many annoyances; to put up 
irith Injury '. to put up trifA bad fare. 
It would no more repay us for all the insolence that we 
have put up irith than does the infliction of u forty-shil- 
ling flue on the cabman recompense the gentleman whom 
he has blackguarded for an hour In a crowded thorough- 
fare. BJoabnxxft May., XCVI. 198. 
pnt 1 (put), . [Formerly also putt; < ME. put, 
< put*, r.j 1. A thrust; a piiHh. 
The dear creature, I doubted not, wanted to Instruct 
me how 1 1 answer the captain's home put. 
Riehar'tmn, Clarissa Harlowe, IV. S16. (Duma.) 
2. A cast or throw; specifically, a throw made 
by an upward and forward motion of the arm, 
as in putting the stone. [Pronounced in Scot- 
land put.] 
The put of the ttoon thou malst not rcche. 
To lltll myijte Is In thl sleue. 
llninntlo Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. H.\ p. 13. 
4866 
3t. An attempt; particularly, an attempt to 
avoid something, as when a bird or beast of 
chase, hard pressed, seeks safety under cover. 
The stag's was a forced put, and a chance rather than 
a choice. Sir H. L'totmnye- 
4. A game t cards, played generally by two 
people, but sometimes by three, and often four. 
The whole pack Is used In playing, but only three cards 
are dealt out at a time. Whoever gains at least two tricks 
out of the three counts five points, which make game. 
There are some playing at back-gammon, some at trick- 
track, some at picket, some at cribidge, and, perhaps, at 
a by-table in a corner, four or five harmless fellows at put 
and IB-fount Country Gentleman's Vade Mecum (1I9X 
[p. 75. (UaUiwU.) 
He had heard an old tailor say that in his youth, fifty 
years ago, put was a common public-house game. 
Mniili. a-. London Labour and London Poor, I. 207. 
5. A contract by which the party signing or 
making the same agrees, in consideration usu- 
ally of a certain sum of money, that lie will ac- 
cept and pay for specified securities or com- 
modities which the party named therein, or 
the bearer of the contract, at or within a time 
named, shall, at the option of the latter, offer 
to sell the former at a specified price, it is used 
chiefly in the stock-market, for speculative purposes, and 
if the intent of the parties is to settle the difference of 
price in money, It is Illegal. 
Gran. And all this out of Change- Alley '( 
Wit. Every Shilling, Sir; all out of Stocks, 
Putts, Bulls, Earns, Bears, and Bubbles. 
Cibber, Refusal, i. 
A put is an option to deliver, or not deliver, at a future 
day. IMxr and Simondt, Law Prod. Ex., p. 60. 
put 2 (put), 11. [Also putt; perhaps < "W. pvst, 
any short thing; cf. pictan, pwtog, a, squat wo- 
man.] A rustic; a clown; a silly fellow ; a sim- 
pleton ; an oddity. [Eng.] 
As he gave the good-night to two or three young fellows 
a little before our landing, one of them, Instead of return- 
ing the civility, nsked us what queer old put we had in 
the boat. Additon, Sir Roger at Vauxhall 
\VhatLetacre said to you upon that occasion you ought 
to have IKM-IIC with more decency . . . than to have call- 
ed him country put. Steele, Spectator, No. 263. 
put 3 t (put), ti. [< OF. piitc, puite (= Pr. Sp. Pg. 
putti = li.puthi), a prostitute, fern, of put, putt, 
pout, pot (= Sp. Pg. piito = It. putto), foul, 
bad, wicked.] A strumpet; a prostitute. 
puff, An obsolete form otpifl. 
putage (pu'taj), u. [< OF. putai/e (ML. puta- 
yinni), fornication, prostitution, < putt', a pros- 
titute: see pufi.] In loif, prostitution or for- 
nication on the part of a woman. 
If any heir female under guardianship we're guilty of 
putage, she forfeited her part to her coheirs. 
Jacob, Law I)ict. 
putailet, " A variant form of pitaile. 
putamen (pu-ta'men), n. ; pi. putamina (pu- 
tam'i-na). [< L. imtanieii, a trimming or clip- 
ping, waste, husk,<;<H/jT, cleanse, trim, prune : 
seeyMttafion.] 1. Infco..,theemlocarpof a fruit 
when hard and stony; the shell of a nut, or 
the stone of a stone-fruit or drupe ; also, one of 
the pyrenco or apparent seeds of some drupes. 
See drupe and enaocarp, and cut under ilrupr. 
2. In ornitli., the soft shell of an egg; a last 
layer of tough tenacious albumen deposited 
upon the soft white of the egg, forming a mem- 
brane in and upon which the hard shell is tie- 
posited. 3. In anut., the outer zone of gray 
matter of the lenticular part of the corpus stri- 
atum of the brain. The claustmm separates 
the putamen from the cortex of the brain. 
putaminous (pu-tam'i-uus), o. [< putamen 
(-ii-) + -oux.] Of or pertaining to the puta- 
men: as, a putanrinoux envelop or membrane. 
putanism (pu'ta-nizm), . [< Y.putanisme (= 
8p.putanittmo,putaiymo = It. puttanismo), pros- 
titution, tputain (= It. puttana), a prostitute, 
< />ii /i', a prostitute: see put 3 .] Customary 
lewdness or prostitution in a female. Bailey. 
putation (pu-ta'shon), . [< ME. putation, < 
OF. putation, < L. putatio(n-), a pruning, lop- 
ping, also i I.I,. ) a reckoning, computing, con- 
sidering, < pittare, pp. putatus, cleanse, trim. 
prune, fig. adjust, settle (rationem or ratinium 
accounts ; hence reckon, count, compute, value, 
estimate, esteem, consider, think, suppose, be- 
lieve; < iiiilim, clean, clear: see putc.~] 1. A 
lopping or pruning, as of trees; pruning. 
Kke thai be apte unto putacion 
Of bowes drie or foule elacion. 
Pattadiut, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.\ p. 01. 
2. The act of considering, deeming, or sup- 
posing; supposition; estimation. 
If we were not the actors and sufferers, It Is not possible 
that we should be made the natural subjects of the acci- 
dents of another's body, by any putation, estimation, or 
misjudging whatsoever. Baxter, Life of Faith, ill. 8. 
putidness 
putative (pu'ta-tiv), a. [< F. puUttif= 8p. Pg. 
putatiro, < LL. piitntiriu, supposed, < i,.putare, 
pp. putat u, think, suppose: see/m/arton.] Sup- 
posed; reputed; commonly thought or deemed: 
as, the putative father of a child. 
Thus things indifferent, being esteem'd useful or pious, 
became customary, and then came for reverence into a 
putative and usurp'd authority. 
Jer. Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery, II. i. I 3. 
Her putative parents had impressed, 
On their departure, their cnjolnment. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 17:-. 
Putative marriage, In canon lau~, a marriage contract- 
ed In violation of an Impediment, but in good faith on the 
part of at least one party. 
put;byt (put'bi), n. An excuse for setting aside 
or ignoring. See quotation under <-ojf. 
put-caser (put'kas), . [</>/!, '., + obj. we', 
ii.l A propounder of hypotheses, or hypotheti- 
cal cases. 
lie used to say that no man could be a good lawyer that 
was not a put-case. 
Roger north, Lord Uuilford, I. 20. (Daviet.) 
putchuk, putchock (pu-chuk', pu-chok'), . 
[E. Ind.] In India, the costus-root Green or 
native green putchuk, the Chinese Ariatolochia recur- 
vilabra : so called from some resemblance of its rootstock 
to the putchuk imported from India. It is used as a reme- 
dy for burns and indigestion, and. like many other species 
of Arigtolochia, is regarded as an antidote to snake-poison. 
Physicians, however, now credit these plants with the vir- 
tues of diaphoretics, stimulant tonics, and emmenagognes 
only. The drug In obtained chiefly from cultivation, and 
is at Ningpo a large article of commerce. 
putet (put ), a. [< Jj.putim, cleansed, clean, clear, 
pure, unmixed (usually joined withpWM, pure : 
purus putux, or purus ac jiuttm), orig. pp., < 
^ pu, in purwa, pure, clean : see pure. From 
this adj. are also ult. E. putamen, putation, pu- 
tative, compute, count 1 , account, dispute, repute, 
etc.] Hear; pure; mere. 
Arminius . . . acknowledges faith to be the pure puU 
gift of Ood. Bp. Hall, Via Media (trans.), v. (Damet.) 
Generally pure pule Italians, preferred in England, 
transmitted the gain they got . . . into their own coun- 
try. Fuller, Worthies, York. III. 4tH. (Darin.) 
That cause . . . was pure and pute factions. 
linger North., Exaiucn, p. 527. (Dame*.) 
puteal (pu'te-al), w. [L., a stone curb sur- 
rounding the mouth of a well, < puteug, a well : 
see ^il 1 .] An iuclosure surrounding a well to 
prevent persons from falling into it; a well- 
curb. Sculptured examples of both antiquity and the 
middle ages occur, among which are works of art of high 
excellence. See cut under pozvt. 
puteli (put'e-li), n. [K. Ind.] A broad flat- 
bottomed boat, used for transporting the pro- 
ducts of India down the Ganges. It Is from 40 to 
Puteli or the Ganges. 
63 feet long, lightly made, and capable of conveying a 
heavy cargo. The 'puteli Is surmounted by a large flat- 
topped shed, nearly as long as the bunt, and cairles a sin- 
gle large square sail. 
puterief. . [ME., < OF. puterie (= 8p. ptiteria : 
ML. reflex putcria), prostitution, < ptite, a pros- 
titute: see j)f 8 .] Prostitution. Chaucer. 
putidt (pu'tid), a. [< L. putidiis, stinking, 
fetid, < putfre, stink, be rotten, < V;>w, = Skt. 
V/yw.v, stink. Cf. piitritl.] 1. Stinking; rotten. 
This Mother of divlnest Love, as pure 
All* that other jmtid ! 
J. Bramniml, Psyche, ii. 220. 
2. Mean; low; worthless; foul; dirty; dis- 
gusting. 
1'iiHil fables and ridiculous fictions. 
Jer. Taylor (7), Artlf Handsomeness, p. 1211. 
putidityt (pu-tid'i-ti), n. [< pwtid + -ity.] 
The quality of being putid ; foubiess : vileness ; 
putidnesst (pu'tid-nes), . [< putid + -ew.] 
The <|iiality of being putid: rottennctui; putid- 
ity. 
