English Dictionary: taffeta weave | by the DICT Development Group |
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Procrustes \Pro*crus"tes\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to beat out, to stretch; [?] forward + [?] to strike.] (Gr. Antiq.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, {the bed of Procrustes}. | |
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Faithful \Faith"ful\, a. 1. Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God. You are not faithful, sir. --B. Jonson. 2. Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements. The faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him. --Deut. vii. 9. 3. True and constant in affection or allegiance to a person to whom one is bound by a vow, be ties of love, gratitude, or honor, as to a husband, a prince, a friend; firm in the observance of duty; loyal; of true fidelity; as, a faithful husband or servant. So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only he. --Milton. 4. Worthy of confidence and belief; conformable to truth ot fact; exact; accurate; as, a faithful narrative or representation. It is a faithful saying. --2 Tim. ii. 11. {The Faithful}, the adherents of any system of religious belief; esp. used as an epithet of the followers of Mohammed. Syn: Trusty; honest; upright; sincere; veracious; trustworthy. -- {Faith"ful*ly}, adv. -{Faith"ful*ness}, n. | |
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Veto \Ve"to\, n.; pl. {Vetoes}. [L. veto I forbid.] 1. An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction. This contemptuous veto of her husband's on any intimacy with her family. --G. Eliot. 2. Specifically: (a) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also {the veto power}. (b) The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes. (c) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also {veto message}. [U. S.] Note: Veto is not a term employed in the Federal Constitution, but seems to be of popular use only. --Abbott. | |
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Theftbote \Theft"bote`\, n. [Theft + bote compensation.] (Law) The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment. | |
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Thief \Thief\ (th[emac]f), n.; pl. {Thieves} (th[emac]vz). [OE. thef, theef, AS. [thorn]e[a2]f; akin to OFries. thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. [thorn]j[d3]fr, Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. [thorn]iufs, [thorn]iubs, and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or crouch down. Cf. {Theft}.] 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See {Theft}. There came a privy thief, men clepeth death. --Chaucer. Where thieves break through and steal. --Matt. vi. 19. 2. A waster in the snuff of a candle. --Bp. Hall. {Thief catcher}. Same as {Thief taker}. {Thief leader}, one who leads or takes away a thief. --L'Estrange. {Thief taker}, one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice. {Thief tube}, a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask. {Thieves' vinegar}, a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng.] Syn: Robber; pilferer. Usage: {Thief}, {Robber}. A thief takes our property by stealth; a robber attacks us openly, and strips us by main force. Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night. --Shak. Some roving robber calling to his fellows. --Milton. | |
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Tiptop \Tip"top`\, n. [Tip end + top.] The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything. [Colloq.] | |
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Tiptop \Tip"top`\, a. Very excellent; most excellent; perfect. [Colloq.] [bd]Four tiptop voices.[b8] --Gray. [bd]Sung in a tiptop manner.[b8] --Goldsmith. | |
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Abide \A*bide"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Abode}, formerly {Abid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abiding}.] [AS. [be]b[c6]dan; pref. [be]- (cf. Goth. us-, G. er-, orig. meaning out) + b[c6]dan to bide. See {Bide}.] 1. To wait; to pause; to delay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. To stay; to continue in a place; to have one's abode; to dwell; to sojourn; -- with with before a person, and commonly with at or in before a place. Let the damsel abide with us a few days. --Gen. xxiv. 55. 3. To remain stable or fixed in some state or condition; to continue; to remain. Let every man abide in the same calling. --1 Cor. vii. 20. Followed by by: {To abide by}. (a) To stand to; to adhere; to maintain. The poor fellow was obstinate enough to abide by what he said at first. --Fielding. (b) To acquiesce; to conform to; as, to abide by a decision or an award. | |
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Boiling \Boil"ing\, a. Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion. {Boiling point}, the temperature at which a fluid is converted into vapor, with the phenomena of ebullition. This is different for different liquids, and for the same liquid under different pressures. For water, at the level of the sea, barometer 30 in., it is 212 [deg] Fahrenheit; for alcohol, 172.96[deg]; for ether, 94.8[deg]; for mercury, about 675[deg]. The boiling point of water is lowered one degree Fahrenheit for about 550 feet of ascent above the level of the sea. {Boiling spring}, a spring which gives out very hot water, or water and steam, often ejecting it with much force; a geyser. {To be at the boiling point}, to be very angry. {To keep the pot boiling}, to keep going on actively, as in certain games. [Colloq.] | |
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Bottom \Bot"tom\ (b[ocr]t"t[ucr]m), n. [OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr. pyqmh`n (for fyqmh`n), Skr. budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base. [fb]257. Cf. 4th {Found}, {Fund}, n.] 1. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page. Or dive into the bottom of the deep. --Shak. 2. The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface. Barrels with the bottom knocked out. --Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. --W. Irving. 3. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork. 4. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea. 5. The fundament; the buttocks. 6. An abyss. [Obs.] --Dryden. 7. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley. [bd]The bottoms and the high grounds.[b8] --Stoddard. 8. (Naut.) The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. --Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. --Bancroft. {Full bottom}, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise. 9. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom. 10. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. --Johnson. {At bottom}, {At the bottom}, at the foundation or basis; in reality. [bd]He was at the bottom a good man.[b8] --J. F. Cooper. {To be at the bottom of}, to be the cause or originator of; to be the source of. [Usually in an opprobrious sense.] --J. H. Newman. He was at the bottom of many excellent counsels. --Addison. {To go to the bottom}, to sink; esp. to be wrecked. {To touch bottom}, to reach the lowest point; to find something on which to rest. | |
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Reckoning \Reck"on*ing\, n. 1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: (a) An account of time. --Sandys. (b) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often. --South. He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived. --Macaulay. 2. The charge or account made by a host at an inn. A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning. --Addison. 3. Esteem; account; estimation. You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed. --Sir P. Sidney. 4. (Navigation) (a) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under {Dead}); -- also used fro dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation. (b) The position of a ship as determined by calculation. {To be out of her reckoning}, to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; -- said of a ship. | |
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{To be out of one's head}, to be temporarily insane. {To come or draw to a head}. See under {Come}, {Draw}. {To give (one) the head}, [or] {To give head}, to let go, or to give up, control; to free from restraint; to give license. [bd]He gave his able horse the head.[b8] --Shak. [bd]He has so long given his unruly passions their head.[b8] --South. {To his head}, before his face. [bd]An uncivil answer from a son to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to his head.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. {To lay heads together}, to consult; to conspire. {To lose one's head}, to lose presence of mind. {To make head}, [or] {To make head against}, to resist with success; to advance. {To show one's head}, to appear. --Shak. {To turn head}, to turn the face or front. [bd]The ravishers turn head, the fight renews.[b8] --Dryden. | |
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Parley \Par"ley\, n.; pl. {Parleys}. [F. parler speech, talk, fr. parler to speak, LL. parabolare, fr. L. parabola a comparison, parable, in LL., a word. See {Parable}, and cf. {Parliament}, {Parlor}.] Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce. We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain. --Dryden. {To beat a parley} (Mil.), to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference with the enemy. | |
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Beat \Beat\, v. i. 1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. The men of the city . . . beat at the door. --Judges. xix. 22. 2. To move with pulsation or throbbing. A thousand hearts beat happily. --Byron. 3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden. They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. --Longfellow. The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. --Jonah iv. 8. Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. --Bacon. 4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic] To still my beating mind. --Shak. 5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. 6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. 7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. 8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. {A beating wind} (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress. {To beat about}, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. --Addison. {To beat about the bush}, to approach a subject circuitously. {To beat up and down} (Hunting), to run first one way and then another; -- said of a stag. {To beat up for recruits}, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise. | |
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Beat \Beat\, v. i. 1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. The men of the city . . . beat at the door. --Judges. xix. 22. 2. To move with pulsation or throbbing. A thousand hearts beat happily. --Byron. 3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden. They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. --Longfellow. The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. --Jonah iv. 8. Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. --Bacon. 4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic] To still my beating mind. --Shak. 5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. 6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. 7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. 8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. {A beating wind} (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress. {To beat about}, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. --Addison. {To beat about the bush}, to approach a subject circuitously. {To beat up and down} (Hunting), to run first one way and then another; -- said of a stag. {To beat up for recruits}, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise. | |
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Bush \Bush\, n. [OE. bosch, busch, buysch, bosk, busk; akin to D. bosch, OHG. busc, G. busch, Icel. b[umac]skr, b[umac]ski, Dan. busk, Sw. buske, and also to LL. boscus, buscus, Pr. bosc, It. bosco, Sp. & Pg. bosque, F. bois, OF. bos. Whether the LL. or G. form is the original is uncertain; if the LL., it is perh. from the same source as E. box a case. Cf. {Ambush}, {Boscage}, {Bouquet}, {Box} a case.] 1. A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest. Note: This was the original sense of the word, as in the Dutch bosch, a wood, and was so used by Chaucer. In this sense it is extensively used in the British colonies, especially at the Cape of Good Hope, and also in Australia and Canada; as, to live or settle in the bush. 2. A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs. To bind a bush of thorns among sweet-smelling flowers. --Gascoigne. 3. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines. 4. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue. --Shak. 5. (Hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox. {To beat about the bush}, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. {Bush bean} (Bot.), a variety of bean which is low and requires no support ({Phaseolus vulgaris}, variety {nanus}). See {Bean}, 1. {Bush buck}, [or] {Bush goat} (Zo[94]l.), a beautiful South African antelope ({Tragelaphus sylvaticus}); -- so called because found mainly in wooden localities. The name is also applied to other species. {Bush cat} (Zo[94]l.), the serval. See {Serval}. {Bush chat} (Zo[94]l.), a bird of the genus {Pratincola}, of the Thrush family. {Bush dog}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Potto}. {Bush hammer}. See {Bushhammer} in the Vocabulary. {Bush harrow} (Agric.) See under {Harrow}. {Bush hog} (Zo[94]l.), a South African wild hog ({Potamoch[d2]rus Africanus}); -- called also {bush pig}, and {water hog}. {Bush master} (Zo[94]l.), a venomous snake ({Lachesis mutus}) of Guinea; -- called also {surucucu}. {Bush pea} (Bot.), a variety of pea that needs to be bushed. {Bush shrike} (Zo[94]l.), a bird of the genus {Thamnophilus}, and allied genera; -- called also {batarg}. Many species inhabit tropical America. {Bush tit} (Zo[94]l.), a small bird of the genus {Psaltriparus}, allied to the titmouse. {P. minimus} inhabits California. | |
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3. 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. 5. To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore. 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold. 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.] 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. 9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc. {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition. {To beat off}, to repel or drive back. {To beat out}, to extend by hammering. {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.[b8] --South. {To beat the dust}. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot. {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome. | |
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3. 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. 5. To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore. 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold. 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.] 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. 9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc. {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition. {To beat off}, to repel or drive back. {To beat out}, to extend by hammering. {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.[b8] --South. {To beat the dust}. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot. {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome. | |
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Beat \Beat\, v. t. [imp. {Beat}; p. p. {Beat}, {Beaten}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Beating}.] [OE. beaten, beten, AS. be[a0]tan; akin to Icel. bauta, OHG. b[?]zan. Cf. 1st {Butt}, {Button}.] 1. To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. --Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. --Ex. xxxix. 3. 2. To punish by blows; to thrash. 3. To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. To beat the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. --Prior. 4. To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind. A frozen continent . . . beat with perpetual storms. --Milton. 5. To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. --Blackmore. 6. To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. He beat them in a bloody battle. --Prescott. For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. --M. Arnold. 7. To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.] 8. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic? --Locke. 9. (Mil.) To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo. See {Alarm}, {Charge}, {Parley}, etc. {To beat down}, to haggle with (any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] {To beat into}, to teach or instill, by repetition. {To beat off}, to repel or drive back. {To beat out}, to extend by hammering. {To beat out of} a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. [bd]Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day.[b8] --South. {To beat the dust}. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. {To beat the hoof}, to walk; to go on foot. {To beat the wing}, to flutter; to move with fluttering agitation. {To beat time}, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. {To beat up}, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters. Syn: To strike; pound; bang; buffet; maul; drub; thump; baste; thwack; thrash; pommel; cudgel; belabor; conquer; defeat; vanquish; overcome. | |
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Beat \Beat\, v. i. 1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. The men of the city . . . beat at the door. --Judges. xix. 22. 2. To move with pulsation or throbbing. A thousand hearts beat happily. --Byron. 3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden. They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. --Longfellow. The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. --Jonah iv. 8. Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. --Bacon. 4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic] To still my beating mind. --Shak. 5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. 6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. 7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. 8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. {A beating wind} (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress. {To beat about}, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. --Addison. {To beat about the bush}, to approach a subject circuitously. {To beat up and down} (Hunting), to run first one way and then another; -- said of a stag. {To beat up for recruits}, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise. | |
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Beat \Beat\, v. i. 1. To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. The men of the city . . . beat at the door. --Judges. xix. 22. 2. To move with pulsation or throbbing. A thousand hearts beat happily. --Byron. 3. To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do. Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below. --Dryden. They [winds] beat at the crazy casement. --Longfellow. The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wisbed in himself to die. --Jonah iv. 8. Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers. --Bacon. 4. To be in agitation or doubt. [Poetic] To still my beating mind. --Shak. 5. (Naut.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse. 6. To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat. 7. (Mil.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters. 8. (Acoustics & Mus.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. {A beating wind} (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress. {To beat about}, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. --Addison. {To beat about the bush}, to approach a subject circuitously. {To beat up and down} (Hunting), to run first one way and then another; -- said of a stag. {To beat up for recruits}, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise. | |
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Bid \Bid\ (b[icr]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[acr]d), {Bid}, (Obs.) {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.] [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS. biddian, Icel. bi[edh]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray, ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS. be[a2]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[omac][edh]a, Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G. bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present OSlav. bud[emac]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden to command, except in [bd]to bid beads.[b8] [root]30.] 1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract). 2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. --2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille. 3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly obs.] [bd]Our banns thrice bid ![b8] --Gay. 4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. --D. Jerrold. 5. To invite; to call in; to request to come. As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. --Matt. xxii. 9 {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave. {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely. Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin. | |
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Defiance \De*fi"ance\, n. [OF. defiance, desfiance, challenge, fr. desfier to challenge, F. d[82]fier. See {Defy}.] 1. The act of defying, putting in opposition, or provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat. A war without a just defiance made. --Dryden. Stood for her cause, and flung defiance down. --Tennyson. 2. A state of opposition; willingness to flight; disposition to resist; contempt of opposition. He breathed defiance to my ears. --Shak. 3. A casting aside; renunciation; rejection. [Obs.] [bd]Defiance to thy kindness.[b8] --Ford. {To bid defiance}, {To set at defiance}, to defy; to disregard recklessly or contemptuously. --Locke. | |
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Bid \Bid\ (b[icr]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[acr]d), {Bid}, (Obs.) {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.] [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS. biddian, Icel. bi[edh]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray, ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS. be[a2]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[omac][edh]a, Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G. bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present OSlav. bud[emac]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden to command, except in [bd]to bid beads.[b8] [root]30.] 1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract). 2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. --2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille. 3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly obs.] [bd]Our banns thrice bid ![b8] --Gay. 4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. --D. Jerrold. 5. To invite; to call in; to request to come. As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. --Matt. xxii. 9 {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave. {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely. Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin. | |
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Bid \Bid\ (b[icr]d), v. t. [imp. {Bade} (b[acr]d), {Bid}, (Obs.) {Bad}; p. p. {Bidden}, {Bid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bidding}.] [OE. bidden, prop to ask, beg, AS. biddan; akin to OS. biddian, Icel. bi[edh]ja, OHG. bittan, G. bitten, to pray, ask, request, and E. bead, also perh. to Gr. teiqein to persuade, L. fidere to trust, E. faith, and bide. But this word was early confused with OE. beden, beoden, AS. be[a2]dan, to offer, command; akin to Icel. bj[omac][edh]a, Goth. biudan (in comp.), OHG. biotan to command, bid, G. bieten, D. bieden, to offer, also to Gr. pynqa`nesqai to learn by inquiry, Skr. budh to be awake, to heed, present OSlav. bud[emac]ti to be awake, E. bode, v. The word now has the form of OE. bidden to ask, but the meaning of OE. beden to command, except in [bd]to bid beads.[b8] [root]30.] 1. To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a certain price, as for work to be done under a contract). 2. To offer in words; to declare, as a wish, a greeting, a threat, or defiance, etc.; as, to bid one welcome; to bid good morning, farewell, etc. Neither bid him God speed. --2. John 10. He bids defiance to the gaping crowd. --Granrille. 3. To proclaim; to declare publicly; to make known. [Mostly obs.] [bd]Our banns thrice bid ![b8] --Gay. 4. To order; to direct; to enjoin; to command. That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. --Pope Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee. --Matt. xiv. 28 I was bid to pick up shells. --D. Jerrold. 5. To invite; to call in; to request to come. As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. --Matt. xxii. 9 {To bid beads}, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] {To bid defiance to}, to defy openly; to brave. {To bid fair}, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely. Syn: To offer; proffer; tender; propose; order; command; direct; charge; enjoin. | |
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Fair \Fair\, adv. Clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably. {Fair and square}, justly; honestly; equitably; impartially. [Colloq.] {To bid fair}. See under {Bid}. {To speak fair}, to address with courtesy and frankness. [Archaic] | |
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Body \Bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bodied} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bodying}.] To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody. {To body forth}, to give from or shape to mentally. Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown. --Shak. | |
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Fit \Fit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fitting}.] 1. To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation. The time is fitted for the duty. --Burke. The very situation for which he was peculiarly fitted by nature. --Macaulay. 2. To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc. The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes. --Is. xliv. 13. 3. To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required. No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. --Shak. 4. To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on. That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions. --Shak. That time best fits the work. --Shak. {To fit out}, to supply with necessaries or means; to furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer. {To fit up}, to firnish with things suitable; to make proper for the reception or use of any person; to prepare; as, to fit up a room for a guest. | |
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Foot \Foot\, v. t. 1. To kick with the foot; to spurn. --Shak. 2. To set on foot; to establish; to land. [Obs.] What confederacy have you with the traitors Late footed in the kingdom? --Shak. 3. To tread; as, to foot the green. --Tickell. 4. To sum up, as the numbers in a column; -- sometimes with up; as, to foot (or foot up) an account. 5. The size or strike with the talon. [Poet.] --Shak. 6. To renew the foot of, as of stocking. --Shak. {To foot a bill}, to pay it. [Colloq.] -- {To foot it}, to walk; also, to dance. | |
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Vantage \Van"tage\ (v[adot]n"t[asl]j; 48), n. [Aphetic form of OE. avantage, fr. F. avantage. See {Advantage}.] 1. superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage. [R.] O happy vantage of a kneeling knee! --Shak. 2. (Lawn Tennis) The first point after deuce. Note: When the server wins this point, it is called vantage in; when the receiver, or striker out, wins, it is called vantage out. {To have at vantage}, to have the advantage of; to be in a more favorable condition than. [bd]He had them at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march.[b8] --Bacon. {Vantage ground}, superiority of state or place; the place or condition which gives one an advantage over another. [bd]The vantage ground of truth. --Bacon. It is these things that give him his actual standing, and it is from this vantage ground that he looks around him. --I. Taylor. | |
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Ox \Ox\ ([ocr]ks), n.; pl. {Oxen}. [AS. oxa; akin to D. os. G. ochs, ochse, OHG. ohso, Icel. oxi, Sw. & Dan. oxe, Goth. a[a3]hsa, Skr. ukshan ox, bull; cf. Skr. uksh to sprinkle. [root]214. Cf. {Humid}, {Aurochs}.] (Zo[94]l.) The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so. The word is also applied, as a general name, to any species of bovine animals, male and female. All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field. --Ps. viii. 7. Note: The castrated male is called a steer until it attains its full growth, and then, an ox; but if castrated somewhat late in life, it is called a stag. The male, not castrated, is called a bull. These distinctions are well established in regard to domestic animals of this genus. When wild animals of this kind are spoken of, ox is often applied both to the male and the female. The name ox is never applied to the individual cow, or female, of the domestic kind. Oxen may comprehend both the male and the female. {Grunting ox} (Zo[94]l.), the yak. {Indian ox} (Zo[94]l.), the zebu. {Javan ox} (Zo[94]l.), the banteng. {Musk ox}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Musk}. {Ox bile}. See {Ox gall}, below. {Ox gall}, the fresh gall of the domestic ox; -- used in the arts and in medicine. {Ox pith}, ox marrow. [Obs.] --Marston. {Ox ray} (Zo[94]l.), a very large ray ({Dicerobatis Giorn[91]}) of Southern Europe. It has a hornlike organ projecting forward from each pectoral fin. It sometimes becomes twenty feet long and twenty-eight feet broad, and weighs over a ton. Called also {sea devil}. {To have the black ox tread on one's foot}, to be unfortunate; to know what sorrow is (because black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto). --Leigh Hunt. | |
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{To pay one's duty}, to render homage, as to a sovereign or other superior. {To pay out} (Naut.), to pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under {Cable}. {To pay the piper}, to bear the cost, expense, or trouble. [Colloq.] | |
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Piper \Pip"er\, n. 1. (Mus.) One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe. [bd]The hereditary piper and his sons.[b8] --Macaulay. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A common European gurnard ({Trigla lyra}), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines. (b) A sea urchin ({Goniocidaris hystrix}) having very long spines, native of both the American and European coasts. {To pay the piper}, to bear the cost, expense, or trouble. | |
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Commission \Com*mis"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. commissio. See {Commit}.] 1. The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. --South. 2. The act of intrusting; a charge; instructions as to how a trust shall be executed. 3. The duty or employment intrusted to any person or persons; a trust; a charge. 4. A formal written warrant or authority, granting certain powers or privileges and authorizing or commanding the performance of certain duties. Let him see our commission. --Shak. 5. A certificate conferring military or naval rank and authority; as, a colonel's commission. 6. A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission. A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter. --Prescott. 7. (Com.) (a) The acting under authority of, or on account of, another. (b) The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city. (c) The brokerage or allowance made to a factor or agent for transacting business for another; as, a commission of ten per cent on sales. See {Del credere}. {Commission of array}. (Eng. Hist.) See under {Array}. {Commission of bankruptcy}, a commission appointing and empowering certain persons to examine into the facts relative to an alleged bankruptcy, and to secure the bankrupt's lands and effects for the creditors. {Commission of lunacy}, a commission authorizing an inquiry whether a person is a lunatic or not. {Commission merchant}, one who buys or sells goods on commission, as the agent of others, receiving a rate per cent as his compensation. {Commission, [or] Commissioned}, {officer} (Mil.), one who has a commission, in distinction from a noncommissioned or warrant officer. {Commission of the peace}, a commission under the great seal, constituting one or more persons justices of the peace. [Eng.] {To put a vessel into commission} (Naut.), to equip and man a government vessel, and send it out on service after it has been laid up; esp., | |
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the formal act of taking command of a vessel for service, hoisting the flag, reading the orders, etc. {To put a vessel out of commission} (Naut.), to detach the officers and crew and retire it from active service, temporarily or permanently. {To put} {the great seal, [or] the Treasury}, {into commission}, to place it in the hands of a commissioner or commissioners during the abeyance of the ordinary administration, as between the going out of one lord keeper and the accession of another. [Eng.] {The United States Christian Commission}, an organization among the people of the North, during the Civil War, which afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the field and in hospitals. {The United States Sanitary Commission}, an organization formed by the people of the North to co[94]perate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War. Syn: Charge; warrant; authority; mandate; office; trust; employment. | |
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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 [bd]overhand,[b8] 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. [bd]Smiling put the question by.[b8] --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. [bd]Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.[b8] --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 | |
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Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t 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. [bd]The French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey. {To put forth}. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --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. | |
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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 [bd]overhand,[b8] 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. [bd]Smiling put the question by.[b8] --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. [bd]Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.[b8] --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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t 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. [bd]The French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey. {To put forth}. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --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. | |
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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 [bd]overhand,[b8] 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. [bd]Smiling put the question by.[b8] --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. [bd]Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.[b8] --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 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 [bd]overhand,[b8] 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. [bd]Smiling put the question by.[b8] --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. [bd]Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.[b8] --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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t 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. [bd]The French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey. {To put forth}. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --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. | |
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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 [bd]overhand,[b8] 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. [bd]Smiling put the question by.[b8] --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. [bd]Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.[b8] --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 | |
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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 [bd]overhand,[b8] 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. [bd]Smiling put the question by.[b8] --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. [bd]Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.[b8] --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 | |
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Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t 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. [bd]The French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey. {To put forth}. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --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. | |
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. (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. [bd]Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.[b8] --L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] [bd]This came handsomely to put on the peace.[b8] --Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. [bd]That which thou puttest on me, will I bear.[b8] --2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. [bd]The stork found he was put upon.[b8] --L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. [bd]This caution will put them upon considering.[b8] --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. [bd]He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.[b8] --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. [bd]That dares not put it to the touch.[b8] --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. [bd]O gentle lady, do not put me to 't.[b8] --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.] [bd]Such national injuries are not to be put up.[b8] --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. [bd]She has been frightened; she has been put up.[b8] --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. [bd]Himself never put up any of the rent.[b8] --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. 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. | |
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Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t 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. [bd]The French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey. {To put forth}. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --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. | |
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Foot \Foot\ (f[oocr]t), n.; pl. {Feet} (f[emac]t). [OE. fot, foot, pl. fet, feet. AS. f[omac]t, pl. f[emac]t; akin to D. voet, OHG. fuoz, G. fuss, Icel. f[omac]tr, Sw. fot, Dan. fod, Goth. f[omac]tus, L. pes, Gr. poy`s, Skr. p[be]d, Icel. fet step, pace measure of a foot, feta to step, find one's way. [fb]77, 250. Cf. {Antipodes}, {Cap-a-pie}, {Expedient}, {Fet} to fetch, {Fetlock}, {Fetter}, {Pawn} a piece in chess, {Pedal}.] 1. (Anat.) The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See {Manus}, and {Pes}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of {Buccinum}. 3. That which corresponds to the foot of a man or animal; as, the foot of a table; the foot of a stocking. 4. The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed. And now at foot Of heaven's ascent they lift their feet. --Milton. 5. Fundamental principle; basis; plan; -- used only in the singular. Answer directly upon the foot of dry reason. --Berkeley. 6. Recognized condition; rank; footing; -- used only in the singular. [R.] As to his being on the foot of a servant. --Walpole. 7. A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See {Yard}. Note: This measure is supposed to be taken from the length of a man's foot. It differs in length in different countries. In the United States and in England it is 304.8 millimeters. 8. (Mil.) Soldiers who march and fight on foot; the infantry, usually designated as the foot, in distinction from the cavalry. [bd]Both horse and foot.[b8] --Milton. 9. (Pros.) A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent. 10. (Naut.) The lower edge of a sail. Note: Foot is often used adjectively, signifying of or pertaining to a foot or the feet, or to the base or lower part. It is also much used as the first of compounds. {Foot artillery}. (Mil.) (a) Artillery soldiers serving in foot. (b) Heavy artillery. --Farrow. {Foot bank} (Fort.), a raised way within a parapet. {Foot barracks} (Mil.), barracks for infantery. {Foot bellows}, a bellows worked by a treadle. --Knight. {Foot company} (Mil.), a company of infantry. --Milton. {Foot gear}, covering for the feet, as stocking, shoes, or boots. {Foot hammer} (Mach.), a small tilt hammer moved by a treadle. {Foot iron}. (a) The step of a carriage. (b) A fetter. {Foot jaw}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Maxilliped}. {Foot key} (Mus.), an organ pedal. {Foot level} (Gunnery), a form of level used in giving any proposed angle of elevation to a piece of ordnance. --Farrow. {Foot mantle}, a long garment to protect the dress in riding; a riding skirt. [Obs.] {Foot page}, an errand boy; an attendant. [Obs.] {Foot passenger}, one who passes on foot, as over a road or bridge. {Foot pavement}, a paved way for foot passengers; a footway; a trottoir. {Foot poet}, an inferior poet; a poetaster. [R.] --Dryden. {Foot post}. (a) A letter carrier who travels on foot. (b) A mail delivery by means of such carriers. {Fot pound}, [and] {Foot poundal}. (Mech.) See {Foot pound} and {Foot poundal}, in the Vocabulary. {Foot press} (Mach.), a cutting, embossing, or printing press, moved by a treadle. {Foot race}, a race run by persons on foot. --Cowper. {Foot rail}, a railroad rail, with a wide flat flange on the lower side. {Foot rot}, an ulcer in the feet of sheep; claw sickness. {Foot rule}, a rule or measure twelve inches long. {Foot screw}, an adjusting screw which forms a foot, and serves to give a machine or table a level standing on an uneven place. {Foot secretion}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Sclerobase}. {Foot soldier}, a soldier who serves on foot. {Foot stick} (Printing), a beveled piece of furniture placed against the foot of the page, to hold the type in place. {Foot stove}, a small box, with an iron pan, to hold hot coals for warming the feet. {Foot tubercle}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Parapodium}. {Foot valve} (Steam Engine), the valve that opens to the air pump from the condenser. {Foot vise}, a kind of vise the jaws of which are operated by a treadle. {Foot waling} (Naut.), the inside planks or lining of a vessel over the floor timbers. --Totten. {Foot wall} (Mining), the under wall of an inclosed vein. {By foot}, [or] {On foot}, by walking; as, to pass a stream on foot. {Cubic foot}. See under {Cubic}. {Foot and mouth disease}, a contagious disease (Eczema epizo[94]tica) of cattle, sheep, swine, etc., characterized by the formation of vesicles and ulcers in the mouth and about the hoofs. {Foot of the fine} (Law), the concluding portion of an acknowledgment in court by which, formerly, the title of land was conveyed. See {Fine of land}, under {Fine}, n.; also {Chirograph}. (b). {Square foot}. See under {Square}. {To be on foot}, to be in motion, action, or process of execution. {To keep the foot} (Script.), to preserve decorum. [bd]Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God.[b8] --Eccl. v. 1. {To put one's foot down}, to take a resolute stand; to be determined. [Colloq.] {To put the best foot foremost}, to make a good appearance; to do one's best. [Colloq.] {To set on foot}, to put in motion; to originate; as, to set on foot a subscription. {To} {put, [or] set}, {one on his feet}, to put one in a position to go on; to assist to start. {Under foot}. (a) Under the feet; (Fig.) at one's mercy; as, to trample under foot. --Gibbon. (b) Below par. [Obs.] [bd]They would be forced to sell . . . far under foot.[b8] --Bacon. | |
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. (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. [bd]Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.[b8] --L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] [bd]This came handsomely to put on the peace.[b8] --Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. [bd]That which thou puttest on me, will I bear.[b8] --2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. [bd]The stork found he was put upon.[b8] --L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. [bd]This caution will put them upon considering.[b8] --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. [bd]He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.[b8] --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. [bd]That dares not put it to the touch.[b8] --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. [bd]O gentle lady, do not put me to 't.[b8] --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.] [bd]Such national injuries are not to be put up.[b8] --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. [bd]She has been frightened; she has been put up.[b8] --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. [bd]Himself never put up any of the rent.[b8] --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. 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Flight feathers} (Zo[94]l.), the wing feathers of a bird, including the quills, coverts, and bastard wing. See {Bird}. {To put to flight}, {To turn to flight}, to compel to run away; to force to flee; to rout. Syn: Pair; set. See {Pair}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
. (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. [bd]Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.[b8] --L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] [bd]This came handsomely to put on the peace.[b8] --Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. [bd]That which thou puttest on me, will I bear.[b8] --2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. [bd]The stork found he was put upon.[b8] --L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. [bd]This caution will put them upon considering.[b8] --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. [bd]He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.[b8] --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. [bd]That dares not put it to the touch.[b8] --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. [bd]O gentle lady, do not put me to 't.[b8] --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.] [bd]Such national injuries are not to be put up.[b8] --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. [bd]She has been frightened; she has been put up.[b8] --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. [bd]Himself never put up any of the rent.[b8] --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. 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t 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. [bd]The French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey. {To put forth}. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
. (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. [bd]Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man.[b8] --L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To advance; to promote. [Obs.] [bd]This came handsomely to put on the peace.[b8] --Bacon. (d) To impose; to inflict. [bd]That which thou puttest on me, will I bear.[b8] --2 Kings xviii. 14. (e) To apply; as, to put on workmen; to put on steam. (f) To deceive; to trick. [bd]The stork found he was put upon.[b8] --L'Estrange. (g) To place upon, as a means or condition; as, he put him upon bread and water. [bd]This caution will put them upon considering.[b8] --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. [bd]He hath not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.[b8] --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. [bd]That dares not put it to the touch.[b8] --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. [bd]O gentle lady, do not put me to 't.[b8] --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.] [bd]Such national injuries are not to be put up.[b8] --Addison. (b) To send forth or upward; as, to put up goods for sale. (d) To start from a cover, as game. [bd]She has been frightened; she has been put up.[b8] --C. Kingsley. (e) To hoard. [bd]Himself never put up any of the rent.[b8] --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. 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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{To put up to}, to advance to. [Obs.] [bd]With this he put up to my lord.[b8] --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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{To put up to}, to advance to. [Obs.] [bd]With this he put up to my lord.[b8] --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. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tuf-taffeta \Tuf-taf"fe*ta\, n. A silk fabric formerly in use, having a nap or pile. [Written also {tuft-taffeta}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Tuf-taffeta \Tuf-taf"fe*ta\, n. A silk fabric formerly in use, having a nap or pile. [Written also {tuft-taffeta}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Typhoid \Ty"phoid\, a. [Typhus + -oid: cf. F. typho[8b]de, Gr. [?]. See {Typhus}.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms. {Typhoid fever}, a disease formerly confounded with typhus, but essentially different from the latter. It is characterized by fever, lasting usually three or more weeks, diarrh[91]a with evacuations resembling pea soup in appearance, and prostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or contagion, of this fever is supposed to be a microscopic vegetable organism, or bacterium. Called also {enteric fever}. See {Peyer's glands}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Taftville, CT Zip code(s): 06380 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Tiptop, VA Zip code(s): 24630 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
TV Typewriters A Tale of Hackish Ingenuity Here is a true story about a glass tty: One day an MIT hacker was in a motorcycle accident and broke his leg. He had to stay in the hospital quite a while, and got restless because he couldn't {hack}. Two of his friends therefore took a terminal and a modem for it to the hospital, so that he could use the computer by telephone from his hospital bed. Now this happened some years before the spread of home computers, and computer terminals were not a familiar sight to the average person. When the two friends got to the hospital, a guard stopped them and asked what they were carrying. They explained that they wanted to take a computer terminal to their friend who was a patient. The guard got out his list of things that patients were permitted to have in their rooms: TV, radio, electric razor, typewriter, tape player, ... no computer terminals. Computer terminals weren't on the list, so the guard wouldn't let it in. Rules are rules, you know. (This guard was clearly a {droid}.) Fair enough, said the two friends, and they left again. They were frustrated, of course, because they knew that the terminal was as harmless as a TV or anything else on the list... which gave them an idea. The next day they returned, and the same thing happened: a guard stopped them and asked what they were carrying. They said: "This is a TV typewriter!" The guard was skeptical, so they plugged it in and demonstrated it. "See? You just type on the keyboard and what you type shows up on the TV screen." Now the guard didn't stop to think about how utterly useless a typewriter would be that didn't produce any paper copies of what you typed; but this was clearly a TV typewriter, no doubt about it. So he checked his list: "A TV is all right, a typewriter is all right ... okay, take it on in!" [Historical note: Many years ago, "Popular Electronics" published solder-it-yourself plans for a TV typewriter. Despite the essential uselessness of the device, it was an enormously popular project. Steve Ciarcia, the man behind "Byte" magazine's "Circuit Cellar" feature, resurrected this ghost in one of his books of the early 1980s. He ascribed its popularity (no doubt correctly) to the feeling of power the builder could achieve by being able to decide himself what would be shown on the TV. --ESR] [Antihistorical note: On September 23rd, 1992, the L.A. Times ran the following bit in Steve Harvey's `Only in L.A.' column: It must have been borrowed from a museum: Solomon Waters of Altadena, a 6-year-old first-grader, came home from his first day of school and excitedly told his mother how he had written on "a machine that looks like a computer-but without the TV screen." She asked him if it could have been a "typewriter." "Yeah! Yeah!" he said. "That's what it was called." I have since investigated this matter and determined that many of today's teenagers have never seen a slide rule, either.... - ESR] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TFTP {Trivial File Transfer Protocol} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
TypedProlog (1995-03-25) |