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Put forth

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving). transitive

    "to put forth an effort"

  2. 2
    To extend forward (a body part or something held). transitive

    "Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold."

  3. 3
    To advance, offer, propose (often verbally). transitive

    "They put forth queſtions of Aſtrologie, / VVhich Fauſtus anſwerd with ſuch learned ſkill, / As they admirde and wondred at his wit."

  4. 4
    To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place. obsolete, transitive

    "[…] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […]"

  5. 5
    To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.). transitive

    "For inward light alas / Puts forth no visual beam."

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  1. 6
    To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate. intransitive, transitive

    "[…] her hedges even-pleach’d, / Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, / Put forth disorder’d twigs;"

  2. 7
    (of a ship) To leave (a port or haven). intransitive, transitive

    "[…] 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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