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To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving).
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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:
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“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.”
He could not move as quickly as most men, but he put forth his utmost speed.
But his actor’s need to be liked was stronger than his resentment, and he was putting forth all his charm in an effort to win over this so-unexpected antagonist.
To extend forward (a body part or something held).
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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 […]
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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;
With his broad Sabre next, a Chief in Years, / The hoary Majesty of Spades appears; / Puts forth one manly Leg, to sight reveal’d; / The rest his many-colour’d Robe conceal’d.
To advance, offer, propose (often verbally).
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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:
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So far as one can ascertain from the conflicting accounts that have been put forth, the majority of them remained busied with preparations […]
By the fifteenth the season was in full blast, Opera and theatres were putting forth their new attractions, dinner-engagements were accumulating, and dates for dances being fixed.
In its present form, the social order depends for its continued existence on the acceptance, without too many embarrassing questions, of the propaganda put forth by those in authority and the propaganda hallowed by the local traditions.
It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth.
To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place.
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[…] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […]
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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;
To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.).
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For inward light alas / Puts forth no visual beam.
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[…] 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.
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Thou perceivest the Flowers put forth their precious Odours, And none can tell how from so small a center comes such sweet,
To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate.
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[…] 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 […]
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Soon the beech trees had put forth their delicate, transparent leaves.
(of a ship) To leave (a port or haven).
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[…] 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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And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones—so goes the story—to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?