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English Dictionary: put	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
put n the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date Synonym(s): put option, put Antonym(s): call, call option v put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" Synonym(s): put, set, place, pose, position, lay cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"; "put your ideas in writing" formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language" Synonym(s): frame, redact, cast, put, couch attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story" Synonym(s): put, assign make an investment; "Put money into bonds" Synonym(s): invest, put, commit, place Antonym(s): disinvest, divest estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." Synonym(s): place, put, set cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture" adapt; "put these words to music" arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" Synonym(s): arrange, set up, put, order
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nose \Nose\, n. [AS. nosu; akin to D. neus, G. nase, OHG. nasa, Icel. n[94]s, Sw. n[84]sa, Dan. n[84]se, Lith. nosis, Russ. nos', L. nasus, nares, Skr. n[be]s[be], n[be]s. [?] Cf. {Nasal}, {Nasturtium}, {Naze}, {Nostril}, {Nozzle}.] 1. (Anat.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See {Nostril}, and {Olfactory organ} under {Olfactory}. 2. The power of smelling; hence, scent. We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. --Collier. 3. A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle. {Nose bit} (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end. {Nose hammer} (Mach.), a frontal hammer. {Nose hole} (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. {Nose key} (Carp.), a fox wedge. {Nose leaf} (Zo[94]l.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form. {Nose of wax}, fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced. [bd]A nose of wax to be turned every way.[b8] --Massinger {Nose piece}, the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the end piece of a microscope body, to which an objective is attached. {To hold}, {put}, [or] {bring one's nose to the grindstone}. See under {Grindstone}. {To lead by the nose}, to lead at pleasure, or to cause to follow submissively; to lead blindly, as a person leads a beast. --Shak. {To put one's nose out of joint}, to humiliate one's pride, esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another. [Slang] {To thrust one's nose into}, to meddle officiously in. {To wipe one's nose of}, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Put \Put\, n. [See {Pit}.] A pit. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Put \Put\, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Put}, contracted from putteth. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Put \Put\, n. [Cf. W. pwt any short thing, pwt o ddyn a squab of a person, pwtog a short, thick woman.] A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person. Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign. --Bramston. What droll puts the citizens seem in it all. --F. Harrison.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Put \Put\, n. 1. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball. [bd]A forced put.[b8] --L'Estrange. 2. A certain game at cards. --Young. 3. A privilege which one party buys of another to [bd]put[b8] (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date. [Brokers' Cant] A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price. --Johnson's Cyc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Put \Put\, n. [OF. pute.] A prostitute. [Obs.]