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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Together \To*geth"er\, adv. [OE. togedere, togidere, AS. t[d3]g[91]dere, t[d3]g[91]dre, t[d3]gadere; t[d3] to + gador together. [fb]29. See {To}, prep., and {Gather}.] 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can never stand idle long together. --Landor. 2. In or into union; into junction; as, to sew, knit, or fasten two things together; to mix things together. The king joined humanity and policy together. --Bacon. 3. In concert; with mutual co[94]peration; as, the allies made war upon France together. {Together with}, in union with; in company or mixture with; along with. Take the bad together with the good. --Dryden. | |
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. |