Definition of put

• n. - A pit.
• - 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.
• n. - A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
• imp. & p. p. - of Put
• v. t. - 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).
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
• v. t. - To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.
• v. i. - To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
• v. i. - To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
• v. i. - To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
• n. - The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
• n. - A certain game at cards.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A prostitute.