put forth

verb puts forth · putting forth · put forth

1. transitive To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving). to put forth an effort
2. transitive To extend forward (a body part or something held). Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.
3. transitive To advance, offer, propose (often verbally). They put forth queſtions of Aſtrologie, / VVhich Fauſtus anſwerd with ſuch learned ſkill, / As they admirde and wondred at his wit.
4. obsolete, transitive To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place. […] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […]
5. transitive To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.). For inward light alas / Puts forth no visual beam.
6. intransitive, transitive To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate. […] her hedges even-pleach’d, / Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, / Put forth disorder’d twigs;
7. intransitive, transitive (of a ship) To leave (a port or haven). […] order for sea is given; / They have put forth the haven [—] / Where their appointment we may best discover, / And look on their endeavour.