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inside out, or with the leg part back over the foot, as a stocking in pulling off or for putting on. [Scot.]

The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.

e part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together. -- Forcing house, a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc. -- Forcing machine, a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into anoth…

The process of putting a book into its cover, and making it ready for the finisher.

The act, process, or style of putting together a frame, or of constructing anything; a frame; that which frames.

Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.

ird on armor or a sword. Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. 1 Kings xx. 11. -- To gird up, to bind tightly with a girdle; to support and strengthen, as with a girdle. He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab. 1 Kings xviii. 46. Gird up the loins of your mind. 1 Pet. i. 1…

The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.

The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3.

The act of putting an ecclesiastical benefice in the hands of a layman, or lay corporation.

usiness for the counsel, it is better indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. Bacon. Indifferent tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue.…

The act of putting one in possession of an estate in fee. Sir M. Hale.

A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.

To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries. We will call the damsel, and inquire. Gen. xxiv. 57. Then David inquired of the Lord yet again. And the Lord answered him. 1 Sam. xxiii. 4.

The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion. South.

To mock; to trick. Chaucer. I have not been putting a jape upon you. Sir W. Scott. The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape. W. Besant.

The act of joining; a putting together; conjunction. Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands. Shak.

but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc.

The act or business of putting on lacquer; also, the coat of lacquer put on.