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. (e) To push from land; as, to
put off a boat. — To put on or upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury
. . . put on the shape of a man." L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to
put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] "This came handsomely to put on
the peace." Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. "That which thou puttest on me, will I bear." 2 Kings xviii.
14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. "The stork found he
was put upon." L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread
and water. "This caution will put them upon considering." Locke. (h) (Law) To rest upon; to submit
to; as, a defendant puts himself on or upon the country. Burrill. — To put out. (a) To eject; as, to
put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out
a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by
insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.] (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as,
to put out the hand. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to
interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is,
to open or cut windows. Burrill. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle.
(k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball. —
To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an
army. (b) To refer.
For the certain knowledge of that truth
I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother.
Shak. (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term. (d) To transfer (a person
or thing) across; as, to put one over the river. — To put the hand to or unto. (a) To take hold of,
as of an instrument of labor; as, to put the hand to the plow; hence, to engage in (any task or affair); as,
to put one's hand to the work. (b) To take or seize, as in theft. "He hath not put his hand unto his
neighbor's goods." Ex. xxii. 11. — To put through, to cause to go through all conditions or stages
of a progress; hence, to push to completion; to accomplish; as, he put through a measure of legislation; he
put through a railroad enterprise. [U.S.] — To put to. (a) To add; to unite; as, to put one sum to another.
(b) To refer to; to expose; as, to put the safety of the state to hazard. "That dares not put it to the
touch." Montrose. (c) To attach (something) to; to harness beasts to. Dickens. — To put to a stand,
