Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 151
Pursuit (n.) (Law.) 起訴，告發；檢舉 [U] [C]；原告及其律師 [the S] [G] Prosecution. [Obs.]
Pursuit (n.) The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit" [syn: {pursuit}, {chase}, {pursual}, {following}].
Pursuit (n.) A search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria; "the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of fame"; "a quest for wealth" [syn: {pursuit}, {pursuance}, {quest}].
Pursuit (n.) An auxiliary activity [syn: {avocation}, {by-line}, {hobby}, {pursuit}, {sideline}, {spare-time activity}].
Pursuit (n.) A diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly); "sailing is her favorite pastime"; "his main pastime is gambling"; "he counts reading among his interests"; "they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits" [syn: {pastime}, {interest}, {pursuit}].
Pursuivant (n.) 【英】紋章院屬官；【古】侍從；信使 A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; -- called also {pursuivant at arms}; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.
Pursuivant (n.) The king's messenger; a state messenger.
Pursuivant (v. t.) To pursue. [Obs. & R.]
Pursy (a.) 喘氣的；胖的；縐縮的 Fat and short-breathed; fat, short, and thick; swelled with pampering; as, pursy insolence. -- Shak.
Pursy important he sat him down. -- Sir W. Scot.
Pursy (a.) Breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: {blown}, {pursy}, {short-winded}, {winded}].
Purtenance (n.) That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.
Purrulence (n.) Alt. of Purulency.
Purulency (n.) The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself.
Purulent (a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.
Purulently (v.) In a purulent manner.
Purveance (n.) Alt. of Purveiaunce.
Purveiaunce (n.) Purveyance.
Purveyed (imp. & p. p.) of Purvey.
Purveying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purvey.
Purvey (v. t.) To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.
Purvey (v. t.) To procure; to get.
Purvey (v. i.) To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision.
Purvey (v. i.) To pander; -- with to.
Purveyance (n.) The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.
Purveyance (n.) That which is provided; provisions; food.
Purveyance (n.) A providing necessaries for the sovereign by buying them at an appraised value in preference to all others, and oven without the owner's consent. This was formerly a royal prerogative, but has long been abolished.
Purveyor (n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.
Purveyor (n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
Purveyor (n.) A procurer; a pimp; a bawd.
Purview (n.) (Law) 範圍；權限；視界；【律】要項；條款 The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble. -- Cowell.
Purview (n.) Hence: The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. --Marshall.
Profanations within the purview of several statutes. -- Bacon.
Purview (n.) Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent.
In determining the extent of information required in the exercise of a particular authority, recourse must be had to the objects within the purview of that authority. -- Madison.
Purview (n.) The range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" [syn: horizon, view, purview].
Pus (a.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.
Pusane (n.) A piece of armor for the breast; often, an addition to, or reenforcement of. the breastplate; -- called also pesane.
Puseyism (n.) The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford, England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated " Tracts for the Times;" tractarianism. See Tractarianism.
Puseyistic (a.) Alt. of Puseyite.
Puseyite (a.) Of or pertaining to Puseyism.
Puseyite (n.) One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used opprobriously.
Push (n.) A pustule; a pimple. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Bacon.
Pushed (imp. & p. p.) of Push.
Pushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Push.
Push (v. t.) To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.
Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat. -- Milton.
Push (v. t.) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, . . . the ox shall be stoned. -- Ex. xxi. 32.
Push (v. t.) To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far. " To push his fortune." -- Dryden.
Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor. -- Spectator.
We are pushed for an answer. -- Swift.
Push (v. t.) To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.
Push (v. t.) To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.
To push down, To overthrow by pushing or impulse.
Push (v. i.) To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword. -- Shak.
Push (v. i.) To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.
At the time of the end shall the kind of the south push at him and the king of the north shall come against him. -- Dan. xi. 40.
War seemed asleep for nine long years; at length Both sides resolved to push, we tried our strength. -- Dryden.
Push (v. i.) To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.
To push on, To drive or urge forward; to hasten.
The rider pushed on at a rapid pace. -- Sir W. Scott.
Push (n.) A crowd; a company or clique of associates; a gang. [Slang]
Push (n.) A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.
Push (n.) Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.
Push (n.) An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.
Exact reformation is not perfected at the first push. -- Milton.
When it comes to the push, 'tis no more than talk. -- L' Estrange.
Push (n.) The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.
[Colloq.]
Syn: See Thrust.
Push (n.) The act of applying force in order to move something away; "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise" [syn: push, pushing].
Push (n.) The force used in pushing; "the push of the water on the walls of the tank"; "the thrust of the jet engines" [syn: push, thrust].
Push (n.) Enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy" [syn: energy, push, get-up-and-go].
Push (n.) An electrical switch operated by pressing; "the elevator was operated by push buttons"; "the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk" [syn: push button, push, button].
Push (n.) An effort to advance; "the army made a push toward the sea."
Push (v.) Move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner" [syn: push, force] [ant: draw, force, pull].
Push (v.) Press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action; "He pushed her to finish her doctorate" [syn: push, bear on].
Push (v.) Make publicity for; try to sell (a product); "The salesman is aggressively pushing the new computer model"; "The company is heavily advertizing their new laptops" [syn: advertise, advertize, promote, push].
Push (v.) Strive and make an effort to reach a goal; "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis" [syn: tug, labor, labour, push, drive].
Push (v.) Press against forcefully without moving; "she pushed against the wall with all her strength."
Push (v.) Approach a certain age or speed; "She is pushing fifty" [syn: push, crowd].
Push (v.) Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for; "The liberal party pushed for reforms"; "She is crusading for women's rights"; "The Dean is pushing for his favorite candidate" [syn: crusade, fight, press, campaign, push, agitate].
Push (v.) Sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs); "The guy hanging around the school is pushing drugs."
Push (v.) Move strenuously and with effort; "The crowd pushed forward."
Push (v.) Make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby; "`Now push hard,' said the doctor to the woman" [syn: press, push].
Push, () To put something onto a stack. If one says that something has been pushed onto one's stack, it means that the Damoclean list of things hanging over ones's head has grown longer and heavier yet. This may also imply that one will deal with it before other pending items; otherwise one might say that the thing was ?added to my queue?.
Push, (v. i.) To enter upon a digression, to save the current discussion for later. Antonym of pop; see also stack.
Push, () To put something onto a stack or pdl. Opposite: "{pop."
Push, () Push media. [{Jargon File] (1997-04-10)
Push, (n.) One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
Pusher (n.) One who, or that which, pushes.
Pusher (n.) One who sells illegal drugs, esp. one who tries to convince others to use such drugs.
Pusher (n.) (Railroad) A second engine attached to the rear of a train to provide extra power for climbing steep grades.
Pusher (n.) One who intrudes or pushes himself forward [syn: pusher, thruster].
Pusher (n.) An unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs [syn: pusher, drug peddler, peddler, drug dealer, drug trafficker].
Pusher (n.) Someone who pushes [syn: pusher, shover].
Pusher (n.) A sandal attached to the foot by a thong over the toes [syn: pusher, zori].
Pusher (n.) A small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher].
Pushing (a.) 推的；有企業心的；奮鬥的 Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive. -- Push"ing*ly, adv.
Pushing (n.) 推 The act of applying force in order to move something away; "he gave the door a hard push"; "the pushing is good exercise" [syn: push, pushing].
Pushpin (n.) A child's game played with pins. -- L. Estrange.
Pushpin (n.) 有大頭的圖釘 A tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board [syn: thumbtack, drawing pin, pushpin].
Pusil (a.) Very small; little; petty. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Pusillanimity (n.) The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness.
The badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. -- Shak.
It is obvious to distinguished between an act of . . . pusillanimity and an act of great modesty or humility. -- South.
Syn: Cowardliness; cowardice; fear; timidity.
Pusillanimity (n.) Contemptible fearfulness [syn: pusillanimity, pusillanimousness].
Pusillanimous (a.) 膽怯的；懦弱的；優柔寡斷的 Destitute of a manly or courageous strength and firmness of mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince.
Pusillanimous (a.) Evincing, or characterized by, weakness of mind, and want of courage; feeble; as, pusillanimous counsels. "A low and pusillanimous spirit." -- Burke.
Syn: Cowardly; dastardly; mean-spirited; fainthearted; timid; weak; feeble.
Pusillanimous (a.) Lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful [syn: pusillanimous, poor-spirited, unmanly].
Pusillanimously (adv.) 怯懦地 With pusillanimity.
Pusillanimously (adv.) With a lack of courage and determination; "simperingly, the accused begged for mercy" [syn: pusillanimously, simperingly].
Pusley (n.) (Bot.) Purslane. [Colloq. U. S]
Puss (n.) A cat; -- a fondling appellation.
Puss (n.) A hare; -- so called by sportsmen.
Puss in the corner, A game in which all the players but one occupy corners of a room, or certain goals in the open air, and exchange places, the one without a corner endeavoring to get a corner while it is vacant, leaving some other without one.
Puss moth (Zool.), Any one of several species of stout bombycid moths belonging to Cerura, Harpyia, and allied genera, esp. Harpyia vinuli, of Europe. The larv[ae] are humpbacked, and have two caudal appendages.
Puss (n.) Obscene terms for female genitals [syn: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat].
Puss (n.) Informal terms referring to a domestic cat [syn: kitty, kitty-cat, puss, pussy, pussycat].
Pussy (n.) A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.
Pussy (n.) A catkin of the pussy willow.
Pussy (n.) The game of tipcat; -- also called pussy cat.
Pussy willow (n.) (Bot.) 【植】貓柳；褪色柳 Any kind of willow having large cylindrical catkins clothed with long glossy hairs, especially the American Salix discolor; -- called also glaucous willow, and swamp willow.
Pussy (a.) See Pursy. [Colloq. or Low]
Pussy (a.) Containing pus; "a purulent wound" [syn: purulent, pussy].
Pussy (n.) Obscene terms for female genitals [syn: cunt, puss, pussy, slit, snatch, twat].
Pussy (n.) Informal terms referring to a domestic cat [syn: kitty, kitty-cat, puss, pussy, pussycat].
Pustulant (a.) (Med.) 使生膿包的 Producing pustules.
Pustulant (n.) (Med.) 刺激膿包生長之媒介物 A medicine that produces pustules, as croton oil.
Pustular (a.) 膿包的 Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.
Pustular (a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.
Pustulate (v. t.) 使生膿包 (v. i.) 形成膿包 To form into pustules, or blisters.
Pustulate (a.) 布滿膿包（或膿包狀物）的 Alt. of Pustulated.
Pustulated (a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.
Pustulate (a.) (Of complexion) Blemished by imperfections of the skin [syn: acned, pimpled, pimply, pustulate].
Pustulation (n.) 膿包之形成或出現；膿包 The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.
Pustule (n.) (Med.) 膿包 A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.
Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.
Pustule (n.) A small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus; a blister filled with pus.
Pustulous (a.) Resembling, or covered with, pustules; pustulate; pustular.
Put (v. i.) To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Put (v. i.) To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. -- Dryden.
Put (v. i.) 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.
To put forth. (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.
To put in for. (b) To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a hawk.
To put in for. (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.
To put up. (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.
To put up with. (b) To take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad fare.
Put (n.) The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball. "A forced put." -- L'Estrange.
Put (n.) A certain game at cards. -- Young.
Put (n.) (Finance) 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.) A prostitute. [Obs.]
Put (imp. & p. p.) of Put.
Putting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Put.
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).
His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. -- Jer. Taylor.
Put (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.
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.
Put (v. t.) To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
Put (v. t.) 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).
Put (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.
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.
Put (v. t.) 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.
Put (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.
Put (v. t.) (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.
To put away. (b) To divorce.
To put back. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay.
To put back. (b) To refuse; to deny.
Coming from thee, I could not put him back. -- Shak.
To put back. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour.
To put back. (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.
To put by. (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.
To put down. (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices.
To put down. (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.
To put down. (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.
To put forth. (b) To make manifest; to develop; also, to bring into action; to exert; as, to put forth strength.
To put forth. (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like.
To put forth. (d) To publish, as a book.
To put forward. (a) To advance to a position of prominence or responsibility; to promote.
To put forward. (b) To cause to make progress; to aid.
To put forward. (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.
To put in. (b) (Naut.) To conduct into a harbor, as a ship.
To put in. (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court. -- Burrill.
To put in. (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.
To put off. (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.
To put off. (c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as, to put off repentance.
To put off. (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory.
To put off. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat.
To put on or To put upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." -- L'Estrange.
To put on or To put upon. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another.
To put on or To put upon. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] "This came handsomely to put on the peace." -- Bacon.
To put on or To put upon. (d) To impose; to inflict. "That which thou puttest on me, will I bear." -- 2 Kings xviii. 14.
To put on or To put upon. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam.
To put on or To put upon. (f) To deceive; to trick. "The stork found he was put upon." -- L'Estrange.
To put on or To put upon. (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.
To put on or To put upon. (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.
To put out. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout.
To put out. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire.
To put out. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds.
To put out. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. [Colloq.]
To put out. (f) To protrude; to stretch forth; as, to put out the hand.
To put out. (g) To publish; to make public; as, to put out a pamphlet.
To put out. (h) To confuse; to disconcert; to interrupt; as, to put one out in reading or speaking.
To put out. (i) (Law) To open; as, to put out lights, that is, to open or cut windows. -- Burrill.
To put out. (j) (Med.) To place out of joint; to dislocate; as, to put out the ankle.
To put out. (k) To cause to cease playing, or to prevent from playing longer in a certain inning, as in base ball.
To put out. (l) to engage in sexual intercourse; -- used of women; as, she's got a great bod, but she doesn't put out. [Vulgar slang]
To put over. (a) To place (some one) in authority over; as, to put a general over a division of an army.
To put over. (b) To refer.
For the certain knowledge of that truth I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother. -- Shak.
To put over. (c) To defer; to postpone; as, the court put over the cause to the next term.
To put over. (d) To transfer (a person or thing) across; as, to put one over the river.
To put the hand to or To put the hand 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.
To put the hand to or To put the hand unto. (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.
To put to. (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.
To put to. (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.
To put to bed. (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.
To put up. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale.
To put up. (d) To start from a cover, as game. "She has been frightened; she has been put up." -- C. Kingsley.
To put up. (e) To hoard. "Himself never put up any of the rent." -- Spelman.
To put up. (f) To lay side or preserve; to pack away; to store; to pickle; as, to put up pork, beef, or fish.
To put up. (g) To place out of sight, or away; to put in its proper place; as, put up that letter. -- Shak.
To put up. (h) To incite; to instigate; -- followed by to; as, he put the lad up to mischief.
To put up. (i) To raise; to erect; to build; as, to put up a tent, or a house.
To put up. (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.
Usage: 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 (n.) A pit. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Put () obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth. -- Chaucer.
Put (n.) A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.
Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign. -- Bramston.
What droll puts the citizens seem in it all. -- F. Harrison.
Put (n.) The option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date [syn: put option, put] [ant: call, call option].
Put (v.) Put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay].
Put (v.) Cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"; "put your ideas in writing."
Put (v.) Formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language" [syn: frame, redact, cast, put, couch].
Put (v.) Attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story" [syn: put, assign].
Put (v.) Make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: invest, put, commit, place] [ant: disinvest, divest].
Put (v.) Estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." [syn: place, put, set].
Put (v.) Cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture."
Put (v.) Adapt; "put these words to music."
Put (v.) Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" [syn: arrange, set up, put, order].
PUT, () Program Update Tape.
Putage (n.) Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.
Putamen (n.) [L.] (Bot.) 【植】硬核 The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.
Putamen (n.) The outer reddish part of the lenticular nucleus.
Putanism (n.) Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.
Putative (a.) 想像的；推定的；傳說的 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.
Putative (a.) Purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the putative author of the book."
Putative. () Reputed to be that which is not. The word is frequently used, as putative father, (q.v.) putative marriage, putative wife, and the like. And Toullier, tome 7, n. 29, uses the words putative owner, proprietare putatif. Lord Kames uses the same expression. Princ. of Eq. 391.
Compare: Pachak
Pachak (n.) (Bot.) The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients. [Written also putchuck.]
Putchuck (n.) (Bot.) Same as Pachak.
Putdownable (a.) (Of a book) 無趣味的，不令人感興趣的 Poorly written and not entertaining [syn: uninteresting].
Puteal (n.) (Arch.) An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb. -- Weale.
Compare: Patela
Patela (n.) 恆河上的一種平底小船 A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.
Puteli (n.) Same as Patela.