the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Shut
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
(2):
(v. i.) To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
(3):
(a.) Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
(4):
(n.) A door or cover; a shutter.
(5):
(v. t.) To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
(6):
(imp. & p. p.) of Shut
(7):
(v. t.) To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
(8):
(v. t.) To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.
(9):
(n.) The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
(10):
(a.) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, /, /, /, /, /, always are.
(11):
(a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g.
(12):
(a.) Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.
(13):
(v. t.) To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Shut'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/shut.html. 1828.
