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10 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Nose \Nose\, n. [AS. nosu; akin to D. neus, G. nase, OHG. nasa, Icel. n["o]s, Sw n["a]sa, Dan. n["a]se, Lith. nosis, Russ. nos', L. nasus, nares, Skr. n[=a]s[=a], n[=a]s. ? Cf {Nasal}, {Nasturtium}, {Naze}, {Nostril}, {Nozzle}.] 1. (Anat.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See {Nostril}, and {Olfactory organ} under {Olfactory}. 2. The power of smelling; hence scent. We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. --Collier. 3. A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle. {Nose bit} (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end {Nose hammer} (Mach.), a frontal hammer. {Nose hole} (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. {Nose key} (Carp.), a fox wedge. {Nose leaf} (Zo["o]l.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form {Nose of wax}, fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced. ``A nose of wax to be turned every way.'' --Massinger {Nose piece}, the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the end piece of a microscope body, to which an objective is attached. {To hold}, {put}, or {bring one's nose to the grindstone}. See under {Grindstone}. {To lead by the nose}, to lead at pleasure, or to cause to follow submissively; to lead blindly, as a person leads a beast. --Shak. {To put one's nose out of joint}, to humiliate one's pride, esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another. [Slang] {To thrust one's nose into}, to meddle officiously in {To wipe one's nose of}, to deprive of to rob. [Slang] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Put \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Put \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Put \Put\, n. [OF. pute.] A prostitute. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Put \Put\, n. [See {Pit}.] A pit. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Put \Put\, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Put}, contracted from putteth --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Put \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Put \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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: put n : the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date [syn: {put option}] [ant: {call option}] v 1: put into a certain place: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the mising children"; also with abstract objects and locations: "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: {set}, {place}, {pose}, {position}, {lay}] 2: cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor." 3: formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language" [syn: {frame}, {redact}, {cast}, {couch}] 4: put something on or into (abstractly) assign; ; "She put much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story" [syn: {assign}] 5: make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: {invest}, {commit}, {place}] [ant: {divest}] 6: cause someone to undergo something "He put her to the torture" 7: adapt; "put these words to music" 8: estimate: "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." [syn: {place}, {set}] 9: arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.; "arrange my schedule;" "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" [syn: {arrange}, {set up}, {order}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: PUT Program Update Tape
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