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
