put forth

Definitions

1. 1

   To give or supply

   To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving).

   • to put forth an effort
   • Now, Marcus, now, thy Virtue’s on the Proof: / Put forth thy utmost Strength, work ev’ry Nerve, / And call up all thy Father in thy Soul:
   • “Oh! when a gallant young man, like Mr. Frank Churchill,” said Mr. Knightley dryly, “writes to a fair lady like Miss Woodhouse, he will, of course, put forth his best.”
2. 2

   To extend forward (a body part or something held).

   • Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.
   • […] he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb […]
   • Put forth, put forth that warme balme-breathing thigh, Which when next time you in these sheets wil smother There it must meet another, Which never was, but must be, oft, more nigh;
3. 3

   To advance, offer, propose (often verbally).

   • They put forth queſtions of Aſtrologie, / VVhich Fauſtus anſwerd with ſuch learned ſkill, / As they admirde and wondred at his wit.
   • Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
   • So far as one can ascertain from the conflicting accounts that have been put forth, the majority of them remained busied with preparations […]
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   1. 4

      To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place.

      • […] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […]
      • Then stood there up one in the council, a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation among all the people, and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space;
   2. 5

      To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.).

      • For inward light alas / Puts forth no visual beam.
      • […] now the Moon beginning to put forth her Silver Light, as the Poets call it (tho’ she looked at that Time more like a Piece of Copper) Jones called for his Reckoning […]
      • And, as before, it shone without dismay; Albeit putting forth a fainter light.
   3. 6

      To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate.

      • […] her hedges even-pleach’d, / Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, / Put forth disorder’d twigs;
      • […] [t]ake from vnder Walls, or the like, where Nettles put forth in abundance, the Earth which you shall there finde […]
      • Soon the beech trees had put forth their delicate, transparent leaves.
   4. 7

      (of a ship) To leave (a port or haven).

      • […] order for sea is given; / They have put forth the haven [—] / Where their appointment we may best discover, / And look on their endeavour.

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