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A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as on a mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds, fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed. [Written also sheel, shealing, sheiling, etc.] [Scot.]

To shut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer.

A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling. [Scot.]

A shuttle. [Obs.] Chapman.

A shuttlecock. [Obs.]

A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.

connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course. [Written also chute, and shute.] [U. S.] To take a shoot, to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]

cting from the wall. Ritson, quoted by Halliwell, explains it as a window that opens and shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters made of timber and a few inches of glass above them.

A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against. Sill course (Arch.), a horizontal course of stone, terra cotta, or the like, built into a wall at the level of one or more window sills, these sills often forming part of it.

To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.

To shut with violence; to slam; as, to slot a door. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound.

To fasten by a hatch; to latch, as a door. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Sneck up, be silent; shut up; hold your peace. Shak.

of violently forcing air out through the nasal passages while the cavity of the mouth is shut off from the pharynx by the approximation of the soft palate and the base of the tongue.

See Sneck. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Snick up, shut up; silenced. See Sneck up, under Sneck. Give him money, George, and let him go snick up. Beau & Fl.

A rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut and the air drawn in through the nose.

ne, or expanding air for an air engine. -- Solar flowers (Bot.), flowers which open and shut daily at certain hours. -- Solar lamp, an argand lamp. -- Solar microscope, a microscope consisting essentially, first, of a mirror for reflecting a beam of sunlight through the tube, which sometimes is fixed in a window shu…

cally, only by the intersection of a circle and a conic section or of two conic sections. Hutton. -- Solid square (Mil.), a square body or troops in which the ranks and files are equal.

n some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.

To shut in; to support; to inclose; to fasten. [Obs.] "To sperre the gate." Spenser.