Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Putting"

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) 1.7 (wn)

putting
n : hitting a golf ball on the putting surface with a putter;
"his putting let him down today" [syn: {putt}]


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