a pit.-3d pers. sing. pres. of put, contracted from putteth.-a rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.-of put-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).-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.-to attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.-to lay down; to give up; to surrender.-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.-to incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.-to throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.-to convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.-to go or move; as, when the air first puts up.-to steer; to direct one's course; to go.-to play a card or a hand in the game called put.-the act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.-a certain game at cards.-a privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.-a prostitute.