Part 90
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. (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, to stop; to arrest by obstacles or difficulties. -- To put to bed. (a) To undress and place in bed, as a child. (b) To deliver in, or to make ready for, childbirth. -- To put to death, to kill. -- To put together, to attach; to aggregate; to unite in one. -- To put this and that (or two and two) together, to draw an inference; to form a correct conclusion. -- To put to it, to distress; to press hard; to perplex; to give difficulty to. "O gentle lady, do not put me to 't." Shak. -- To put to rights, to arrange in proper order; to settle or compose rightly. -- To put to the sword, to kill with the sword; to slay. -- To put to trial, or on trial, to bring to a test; to try. -- To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. -- To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] "Such national injuries are not to be put up." Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." Spelman. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. Shak. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house. (j) To lodge; to entertain; as, to put up travelers. -- To put up a job, to arrange a plot. [Slang]
Syn. -- To place; set; lay; cause; produce; propose; state. -- Put, Lay, Place, Set. These words agree in the idea of fixing the position of some object, and are often used interchangeably. To put is the least definite, denoting merely to move to a place. To place has more
## particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a
certain or proper place. To set or to lay may be used when there is special reference to the position of the object.
Put (put; often pt in def. 3), v. i. 1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
Dryden.
3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
To put about (Naut.), to change direction; to tack. -- To put back (Naut.), to turn back; to return. "The French . . . had put back to Toulon." Southey. -- To put forth. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. "Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth." Bacon. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. Shak. -- To put in (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port. -- To put in for. (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share of profits. (b) To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a hawk. (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for. Locke. -- To put off, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore. -- To put on, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently. -- To put over (Naut.), to sail over or across. -- To put to sea (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to advance into the ocean. -- To put up. (a) To take lodgings; to lodge. (b) To offer one's self as a candidate. L'Estrange. -- To put up to, to advance to. [Obs.] "With this he put up to my lord." Swift. -- To put up with. (a) To overlook, or suffer without recompense, punishment, or resentment; as, to put up with an injury or affront. (b) To take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad fare.
Put (?), n. 1. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball. "A forced put." L'Estrange.
2. A certain game at cards. Young.
3. 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. [Brokers' Cant]
A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
Johnson's Cyc.
Put (?), n. [OF. pute.] A prostitute. [Obs.]
Pu"tage (?; 48), n. [OF. putage.] Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.
||Pu*ta"men (?), n. [L.] (Bot.) The shell of a nut; the stone of a ||drupe fruit. See Endocarp.
Pu"tan*ism (?), n. [F. putanisme, fr. putain harlot.] Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.
Pu"ta*tive (?), a. [L. putativus, fr. putare, putatum, to reckon, suppose, adjust, prune, cleanse. See Pure, and cf. Amputate, Compute, Dispute, Impute.] Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child. "His other putative (I dare not say feigned) friends." E. Hall.
Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurped authority.
Jer. Taylor.
Put*chuck" (?), n. (Bot.) Same as Pachak.
||Pu"te*al (?), n. [L., fr. puteus well.] (Arch.) An inclosure ||surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well ||curb. Weale.
||Put"e*li (?), n. Same as Patela.
Pu"ter*y, n. [OF. puterie.] Putage. [Obs.]
Pu"tid (?), a. [L. putidus: cf. F. putide. Cf. Putrid.] Rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless. Jer. Taylor. "Thy putid muse." Dr. H. More.
{ Pu*tid"i*ty (?), Pu"tid*ness (?), } n. The quality or state of being putrid.
Put"log` (?; 277), n. (Arch.) One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose. Oxf. Gloss.
Put"-off` (?; 115), n. A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse. L'Estrange.
Pu"tour (?), n. [See Put a prostitute.] A keeper of a brothel; a procurer. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pu*tred"i*nous (?), a. [L. putredo rottenness, fr. putrere to be rotten. See Putrid.] Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.
Pu`tre*fac"tion (?), n. [L. putrefactio: cf. F. putrÈfaction. See Putrefy.] 1. The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.
Putrefaction is a complex phenomenon involving a multiplicity of chemical reactions, always accompanied by, and without doubt caused by, bacteria and vibriones; hence, putrefaction is a form of fermentation, and is sometimes called putrefaction fermentative. Putrefaction is not possible under conditions that preclude the development of living organisms. Many of the products of putrefaction are powerful poisons, and are called cadaveric poisons, or ptomaÔnes.
2. The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied. "Putrefaction's breath." Shelley.
Pu`tre*fac"tive (?), a. [Cf. putrÈfactif. See Putrefy.] 1. Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. Wiseman.
2. Causing, or tending to promote, putrefaction.
-- Pu``tre*fac"tive*ness, n.
Pu"tre*fy (?), v. t. [Written also putrify.] [imp. & p. p. Putrefied (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Putrefying (&?;).] [F. putrÈfier; L. putrere to be rotten + - ficare (in. comp.) to make; cf. L. putrefacere. See Putrid, and -fy.] 1. To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
2. To corrupt; to make foul.
Private suits do putrefy the public good.
Bacon.
They would but stink, and putrefy the air.
Shak.
3. To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.
Pu"tre*fy, v. i. To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot. Isa. 1. 6.
Pu*tres"cence (?), n. The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.
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Pu*tres"cent (?), a. [L. putrescens, p. pr.of putrescere to grow rotten, v. incho. fr. putrere to be rotten. See Putrid.] 1. Becoming putrid or rotten.
Externally powerful, although putrescent at the core.
Motley.
2. Of or pertaining to the process of putrefaction; as, a putrescent smell.
Pu*tres"ci*ble (?), a. Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances.
Pu*tres"ci*ble, n. A substance, usually nitrogenous, which is liable to undergo decomposition when in contact with air and moisture at ordinary temperatures.
Pu*tres"cin (?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) A nontoxic diamine, C4H12N2, formed in the putrefaction of the flesh of mammals and some other animals.
Pu"trid (?), a. [L. putridus, fr. putrere to be rotten, fr. puter, or putris, rotten, fr. putere to stink, to be rotten: cf. F. putride. See Pus, Foul, a.] 1. Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.
2. Indicating or proceeding from a decayed state of animal or vegetable matter; as, a putrid smell.
Putrid fever (Med.), typhus fever; -- so called from the decomposing and offensive state of the discharges and diseased textures of the body. -- Putrid sore throat (Med.), a gangrenous inflammation of the fauces and pharynx.
Pu*trid"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. putriditÈ.] The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.
Pu"trid*ness (?), n. Putridity. Floyer.
Pu"tri*fac`ted (?), a. [See Putrefy.] Putrefied. [Obs.]
What vermin bred of putrifacted slime.
Marston.
Pu`tri*fi*ca"tion (?), n. Putrefaction.
Pu"tri*fy (?), v. t. & i. To putrefy.
Pu"tri*lage (?), n. [F. putrilage, L. putrilago putrefaction.] That which is undergoing putrefaction; the products of putrefaction.
Pu"try (?), a. Putrid. [Obs.] Marston.
Pu"try, n. Putage. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Put"ter (?), n. 1. One who puts or plates.
2. Specifically, one who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine, and the like. [Prov. Eng.]
Put"ter (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puttered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Puttering.] [See Potter.] To act inefficiently or idly; to trifle; to potter.
Put"ter-on` (?), n. An instigator. Shak.
Put"ti*er (?), n. One who putties; a glazier.
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.
Put"tock (?), n. [Cf. Pout a young bird, Poult.] (Zoˆl.) (a) The European kite. (b) The buzzard. (c) The marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
Put"tock, n. (Naut.) See Futtock. [Obs.]
Put"ty (?), n. [F. potÈe, fr. pot pot; what was formerly called putty being a substance resembling what is now called putty powder, and in
## part made of the metal of old pots. See Pot.] A kind of thick paste or
cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
Putty powder, an oxide of tin, or of tin and lead in various proportions, much used in polishing glass, metal, precious stones, etc.
Put"ty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Puttied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Puttying.] To cement, or stop, with putty.
Put"ty-faced` (?), a. White-faced; -- used contemptuously. Clarke.
Put"ty*root` (?), n. (Bot.) An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also Adam-and-Eve.
Put"-up (?), a. Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job. [Colloq.]
Pu"y (?), n. See Poy.
Puz"zel (?), n. [Cf. F. pucelle a virgin.] A harlot; a drab; a hussy. [Obs.] Shak.
Puz"zle (?), n. [For opposal, in the sense of problem. See Oppose, Pose, v.] 1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.
2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
Puz"zle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Puzzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Puzzling (?).] 1. To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others.
Dr. H. More.
He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders.
Addison.
2. To make intricate; to entangle.
They disentangle from the puzzled skein.
Cowper.
The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error.
Addison.
3. To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.
Syn. -- To embarrass; perplex; confuse; bewilder; confound. See Embarrass.
Puz"zle, v. i. 1. To be bewildered, or perplexed.
A puzzling fool, that heeds nothing.
L'Estrange.
2. To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
Puz"zle*dom (?), n. The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
Puz"zle-head`ed (?), a. Having the head full of confused notions. Johnson.
Puz"zle*ment (?), n. The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
Puz"zler (?), n. One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes.
Hebrew, the general puzzler of old heads.
Brome.
Puz"zling*ly (?), adv. In a puzzling manner.
{ Puz"zo*lan (?), Puz`zo*la"na (?), } n. See Pozzuolana.
||Py*Ê"mi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; pus + &?; blood.] (Med.) A form ||of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of ||morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. ||It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses ||throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring ||chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.
Py*Ê"mic (?), a. Of or pertaining to pyÊmia; of the nature of pyÊmia.
Pyc`nas*pid"e*an (?), a. [Gr. &?; thick, crowded + &?;, &?;, a shield.] (Zoˆl.) Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small irregular scales; -- said of certain birds.
||Pyc*nid"i*um (?), n.; pl. Pycnidia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; crowded.] ||(Bot.) In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of ||the inner walls of which spores are produced.
Pyc"nite (?), n. [Gr. &?; thick.] (Min.) A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.
Pyc"no*dont (?), n. [Gr. &?; thick, crowded + &?;, &?;, a tooth.] (Paleon.) Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.
||Pyc`no*don"ti*ni (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoˆl.) An extinct order of ganoid ||fishes. They had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs ||(pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales.
Pyc*nog"o*nid (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Pycnogonida.
||Pyc`no*gon"i*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; thick crowded + &?; ||knee.] (Zoˆl.) A class of marine arthropods in which the body is ||small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also ||Pantopoda.
The abdomen is rudimentary, and the triangular mouth is at the end of a tubular proboscis. Many of them live at great depths in the sea, and the largest of them measure two feet across the extended legs.
Pyc*nom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; dense, compact + -meter.] (Physics) A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids. [Also written pyknometer.]
Pyc"no*style (?), a. [Gr. &?; with the pillars close together; &?; close + &?; a column, pillar: cf. F. pycnostyle.] (Anc. Arch.) See under Intercolumniation. -n. A pycnostyle colonnade.
Pye (?), n. See 2d Pie (b).
Pye"bald` (?), a. See Piebald.
||Py`e*li"tis (?). n. [Gr. basin + - itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the ||pelvis of the kidney.
Py*e"mi*a (?), n. (Med.) See Py∆mia.
Py"et (?), n. A magpie; a piet. [Prov. Eng.]
Here cometh the worthy prelate as pert as a pyet.
Sir W. Scott.
Py"gal (?), a. [Gr. &?; the rump.] (Anat.) Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.
{ Py"garg (?), ||Py*gar"gus (?), }[L. pygargus, Gr. &?;, literally, white rump; &?; the rump + white: cf. F. pygargue.] 1. (Zoˆl.) A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump. Deut. xiv. 5.