put forth

verb7

1. •
   To extend forward (a body part or something held).

   • Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold. — 1591
2. •
   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. — 1589
3. •
   To give or supply; to make or create (implies trying or striving).

   • “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.” — 1815
4. •
   To emit, send out, give off (light, odour, etc.).

   • For inward light alas / Puts forth no visual beam. — 1671
5. •
   To grow, shoot, bud, or germinate.

   • […] her hedges even-pleach’d, / Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, / Put forth disorder’d twigs — 1599
6. •
   (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. — 1606
7. •
   (no longer used) To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place.

   • […] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […] — 1610