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Shut
SHUT, v.t. pretand pp. shut.
1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or gate; to shut the eyes or the mouth.
2. To prohibit; to bar; to forbid entrance into; as, to shut the ports of the kingdom by a blockade.
Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast
Is open? Milton.
3. To preclude; to exclude.
But shut from every shore. Dryden.
4. To close, as the fingers; to contract; as, to shut the hand.
To shut in, to inclose; to confine.
2. Spoken of points of land, when by the progress of a ship, one point is brought to cover or intercept the view of another. It is then said, we shut in such a point, we shut in the land; or one point shuts in another.
To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof. An interesting subject occupying the mind, shuts out all other thoughts.
To shut up, to close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house.
2. To obstruct.
Dangerous rocks shut up the passage. Raleigh.
3. To confine; to imprison; to lock or fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner.
4. To confine by legal or moral restraint.
Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith, which should afterwards be revealed. Gal 3.
5. To end; to terminate; to conclude.
When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master, if he has acted better. Collier.
SHUT, v.i. To close itself; to be closed. The door shuts of itself; it shuts hard. Certain flowers shut at night and open in the day.
SHUT, pp.
1. Closed; having the entrance barred.
2. a. Rid; clear; free.
SHUT, n.
1. Close; the act of closing; as the shut of a door; the shut of evening. [Little used.]
2. A small door or cover; But shutter is more generally used.
shut appears in definitions for these words:
Abased Apron Battle-door Behemoth Beshut Binacle Bivalve Bivalvous Blink Block Blockade Blockaded Cage Calogeri Calotte Chair Chamber Clap Clasp Clasped Clasping Claudent Clausure Cloister Cloistered Cloistering Close Close-pent Closed Closeness Closet Closeted Closeting Closing Closure Coleopter Coleopteral Conception Conclave Conclude Concluded Concluding Confine Connivent Coop Cooped Crib Cribbed Cub Curtain Cut Dam Dark Debar Desk Door Embar Empale Empaled Encage Encaged Encompass Encompassed Exclude Excluded Exclusion Exquisitely Fend Fended Floodgate Foreclose Franc Gate Girdle Hasp Imbound Immure Impen Impound Imprison Imprisoning Incarcerate Incloister Inclose Inclosing Inclosure Include Interclude Key Land Lid Lock Log-board Mew Myope Mystery Occlude Occluse Occlusion Open Outbar Outshut Pack Padlock Pen Penstock Pent Port Portcullis Pray Preclude Precluding Preclusion Preclusive Prison Reclose Recluse Seal Seclude Secluded Seclusion Shoot Shut Shutter Slam Slot Sluice Solar Spar Sphincter Spool Stopper Stopping Sty Tera Tetanus Tide-gate Tine Tinet Trap Trapanning Twinkle Unclutch Unopened Unshut Valve Ward Weave Window Wink Winking
Abased Apron Battle-door Behemoth Beshut Binacle Bivalve Bivalvous Blink Block Blockade Blockaded Cage Calogeri Calotte Chair Chamber Clap Clasp Clasped Clasping Claudent Clausure Cloister Cloistered Cloistering Close Close-pent Closed Closeness Closet Closeted Closeting Closing Closure Coleopter Coleopteral Conception Conclave Conclude Concluded Concluding Confine Connivent Coop Cooped Crib Cribbed Cub Curtain Cut Dam Dark Debar Desk Door Embar Empale Empaled Encage Encaged Encompass Encompassed Exclude Excluded Exclusion Exquisitely Fend Fended Floodgate Foreclose Franc Gate Girdle Hasp Imbound Immure Impen Impound Imprison Imprisoning Incarcerate Incloister Inclose Inclosing Inclosure Include Interclude Key Land Lid Lock Log-board Mew Myope Mystery Occlude Occluse Occlusion Open Outbar Outshut Pack Padlock Pen Penstock Pent Port Portcullis Pray Preclude Precluding Preclusion Preclusive Prison Reclose Recluse Seal Seclude Secluded Seclusion Shoot Shut Shutter Slam Slot Sluice Solar Spar Sphincter Spool Stopper Stopping Sty Tera Tetanus Tide-gate Tine Tinet Trap Trapanning Twinkle Unclutch Unopened Unshut Valve Ward Weave Window Wink Winking
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