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3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth. Chaucer.

A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse. L'Estrange.

Arranged; plotted; -- in a bad sense; as, a put-up job. [Colloq.]

Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.

The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.

Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child. "His other putative (I dare not say feigned) friends." E. Hall. Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurped authority. Jer. Taylor.…

Same as Pachak.

An inclosure surrounding a well to prevent persons from falling into it; a well curb. Weale.

Same as Patela.

Putage. [Obs.]

Rotten; fetid; stinking; base; worthless. Jer. Taylor. "Thy putid muse." Dr. H. More.

The quality or state of being putrid.

One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, -- one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose. Oxf. Gloss.

A keeper of a brothel; a procurer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.

The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.

Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. Wiseman.

To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.

To become putrescent or putrid; to putrefy.