pustulous

[Lat. pustulosus, from pustula = a pustule (q. v.).) Full of, or covered with, pustules. pût, *put-en, *putte, v . t . & i. [A. S. potian= to thrust, from Gael.put = to push, to thrust; Welsh pwtio =to push, to poke; Corn.poot=to kick, like a horse; Dan. putteto put; Gael. puc =to push, to jostle; Irish poc =a blow, a kick; Corn. poc a push, a shove.] IMG:content-1763.png:[blocks in formation] iv. 15.) 6. To repose, to place. (1) Chronicles v. 20.) 7. To bring to, or place in any state or condition. "Chose ten legislators to put them in form."- Swift : Contests in Athens and Rome. *8. To lay down; to give up; to resign. "No man hath more love than this, that a man putte his lyf for hise frendis." - Wycliffe: John xv. 9. To set before one for consideration, discu ion, judgment, or decision; to propose. "I'll put another question to thee." Shakesp.: Hamlet, v. 1. 10. To state or expre in language; to lay down. "His uncritical way of putting it."-Beames: Comp. Gram. Aryan Lang . (ed. 1872), i. 284. 11. To apply, as in any effort, exercise, or use; to set. ( Luke ix. 62.) 12. To produce, to cause, to set. 13. To set; to place in a reckoning. *14. To urge, to incite, to encourage. (Followed by upon .) *15. To oblige, to compel, to force, to constrain. "Had I first been put to speak my mind." *B. Intransitive: Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . II . , iii. 1. IMG:content-1764.png:[blocks in formation] (3) To hinder; to delay; to postpone; as, Dinner was put back an hour. *(4) To refuse; to say no to; to deny. "Coming from thee, I could not put him back ." 5. To put by : Shakesp: Rape of Lucrece, 843. (1) To put or set aside; to put away; to place in safe keeping; as, to put by something for a rainy day. (2) To thrust aside; to ward off. "He put it by with the back of his hand, thus." Shakesp .: Julius Cæsar , i. 2. (3) To turn aside or away; to divert. "Smiling put the question by." Tennyson: Day Dreams, 164. IMG:content-1765.png:[blocks in formation] (1) To lay down; to set down. (2) To crush; to quell; to overthrow; as, to put down a rebellion. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, put (3) To degrade; to deprive of authority, power, or place. " To put me down and reign thyself." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt. III ., 1. 1. (4) To put a stop to by authority; as, to put down gambling. (5) To bring into disuse. "Till eating and drinking be put down."-Shakesp.: Measure for Measure , iii. 2. (6) To confute; to silence; to put to silence. "Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you down ." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt . I. , ii. 4. (7) To write or set down; to enter in a list; as, to put one down as a subscriber. *1. To put fair for : To be in a fair way of attaining. "He had put fair for it, had not death prevented him." -Heylin: Hist. Presbyterians, p. 130. IMG:content-1766.png:[blocks in formation] to put in a word. (c) To instate or install in an office. "To put his own son in." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. III . , 11. 2. (d) To enter; to put forward; as, to put in a claim. (e) Naut.: To conduct or guide into a harbor. (2) Intransitive: (a) To offer or put in a claim. "If a man should put in to be one of the Knights of Malta, he might modestly enough prove his six descents against a le qualified competitor." -Collier . (b) Naut.: To enter a harbor; to sail or come into port. 10. To put in for : To put one's self forward as a candidate for. 11. To put in force : To enforce. 12. To put in mind; to put in remembrance: To call to remembrance; to remind. 13. To put in practice: To apply; to make practical use of. 14. To put in the pin: To give over; to cease a certain line of conduct, especially bad conduct. ( Vulgar .) 15. To put off: (1) Transitive: (a) To lay aside; to take off from one's person (Nehemiah iv. 23.) (b) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. (c) To discard; to dismi ; to lay aside. "I will put off my hope."-Shakesp.: Tempest , iii. 3. (d) To turn away; to elude; to baffle; to disap. point. "You put me of with limber vows." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, i. 2. *(e) To pa fallaciously; to cause to be circulated or received; as, to put off a report. ( Swift .) (f) To defer; to delay; to postpone. "The kyng was appoynted to goo to Calys, and now hyt ys pute off."-Paston Letters, ii. 354. *(g) To refuse; to decline. "Which (invitation) my near occasions did urge me to put off."-Shakesp.: Timon of Athens , iii. 6. (2) In trans.: To leave land; to leave port. "Which cheers the spirit, ere its bark Puts off into the unknown dark." Moore: Paradise and the Perl. 16. To put on (or upon): (1) Transitive: (a) To invest with, as clothing. ( Gen. xxviii. 20.) (b) To set, as the hands of a clock to a later hour, (c) To a ume, to sham, to feign. "'Twas all put on that I might hear and rave." Dryden: Duke of Guise, i. 1. (d) To impose, to inflict. (2 Kings xviii. 14.) (e) To impute; to charge with; to ascribe to; as, to put the blame on another. IMG:content-1767.png:[blocks in formation] (i) Law : To challenge the verdict of; as, to put one's self on one's country, i. e., to plead not guilty, and stand one's trial. (2) In trans.: To hasten motion; to drive vehemently. 17. To put on airs: To a ume airs of importance. 18. To put out: (1) To hold out, to extend, to show, to reach out. " Put out all your hands." Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, iv. 2. (2) To eject, to drive out, to expel. ( Luke xvi. 4.) (3) To shoot out; to put forth as a shoot or leaves. (4) To publish; to make public. "When I was at Venice, they were putting out curious stamps of the several edifices." -Add is on : On Italy. *(5) To place at interest; to lend out at usury. ( Psalm xv. 5.) (6) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle. (7) To deprive of sight; to blind. "Betray'd, captiv'd, and both my eyes put out." Milton: Samson Agonistes, 33. (8) To dislocate. "She put her shoulder out. "- Field, Jan. 20, 1882. (9) To confuse, to disconcert, to interrupt. IMG:content-1768.png:[blocks in formation] fully. 21. To put to (or unto ): (1) To add, to join, to unite. ( Eccles. iii. 14.) *(2) To expose. "Having lost two of their bravest commanders at sea, they durst not put it to a battle at sea."- Bacon . (3) To punish or kill by. "And put the English men unto the sword." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . II . , iii. 1. (4) To offer to sell; as, I put it to him at $10. 22. To put the hand to (or unto ): (1) To take hold of; to undertake. "Ye shall rejoice in all you put your hand to."-Deut. xii.7. (2) To take, as in theft; to steal. "To see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbor's goods." -Exodus xxii. 8. 23. To put to death : To kill, to execute. 24. To put to it : To distre ; to pre hard; to place in a position or state of difficulty of distre . "They have a leader, Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to 't." Shakesp.: Coriolanus , i. 1. IMG:content-1769.png:[blocks in formation] ma . 30. To put this and that together; to put two and two together: To draw a conclusion from certain circumstances; to infer from certain premises. 31. To put up: (1) Transitive: (a) To hold up; to raise. " Put up her lovely visage." Shakesp.: Henry V., v. 2. (b) To send forth; to put forth; to shoot up. (c) To put into its ordinary place, where a thing is kept when not in use. " Put thy sword up ."-Shakesp.: Tempest, i. 2. putcher (h) To expose; to offer publicly; as, to put up goods for sale. ( i ) To overlook; to pa over unrevenged; to pocket. (The phrase now is to put up with .) "I will, indeed, no longer endure it; nor am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what already I have foolishly suffered."-Shakesp.: Othello , iv. 2. (j) To accommodate with lodging; to lodge, to entertain. (2) Intransitive: (a) To offer one's self as a candidate. "Upon the decease of a lion, the beasts met to chuse a king, when several put up."-L'Estrange: Fables. (b) To lodge; to take up one's lodgings. (c) To stop. "I wondered at what house the Bath coach put up."Dickens: Pickwick , ch. xxxv. 32. To put up to : (1) Trans.: To give information respecting; to explain, to teach; as, to put one up to a trick or dodge. (2) In trans.: To make up to; to advance, to approach. "With this he put up to my lord."- Swift . (Todd.) 33. To put up with : (1) To overlook; to pa over unresented; as, to put up with insolence. (2) To take without di atisfaction or grumbling; to tolerate; as, to put up with bad fare. 34. To put the helm up for a place : To direct the course of a ve el toward a place. "The storm that forced her to put her helm up for IMG:content-1770.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1771.png:[blocks in formation] A. As phrase: An elliptical expre ion for pose that it may be so;" "state a po ible or probable case." "Put-case that the soul after departure from the body may live."-Bp. Hall : Satan's Darts, ., v. B. As subst.: One who suggests or argues hypothetical cases. "No man could be a good lawyer that was not a put case."-North: Life of Lord Guilford , i. 20. put-off, s. Excuse, shift. "This is very bare, and looks like a guilty put - off ." Leslie: Short Method against the Jews.