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etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game. Putting stone, a heavy stone used in the game of putting.

The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole. "The term putting green shall mean the ground within twenty yards of the hole, excepting hazards." Golf Rules.

abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

The act of adjourning; the putting off till another day or time specified, or without day.

Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand. [Colloq.]

Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam.

Removal; a putting away. [Obs.] Bp. Ward (1673).

The putting of one case for another.

The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.

The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

The act of putting together with a joint or joints; any meeting of parts in a joint.

The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.

The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.

The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.

To steady, as a vessel, by putting heavy substances in the hold.

To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize. He was blackballed at two clubs in succession. Thackeray.

The act or the process of putting anything into bottles (as beer, mineral water, etc.) and corking the bottles.

nt which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

To preserve by putting in sealed cans [U. S.] "Canned meats" W. D. Howells. Canned goods, a general name for fruit, vegetables, meat, or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans.