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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Putting \Put"ting\, n. The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game. {Putting stone}, a heavy stone used in the game of putting. 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]: putting n : hitting a golf ball on the putting surface with a putter [syn: {putt}]
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