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A boy who opens and shuts a trapdoor in a gallery or level. Raymond.

Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other. Hutton.

ree octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other. Hutton.

his world. Tillotson. When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle; when shut, to sheep. Sir W. Temple.

A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp.

To open and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange.

To shut; to close. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To open, as something closely shut. "Unclutch his griping hand." Dr. H. More.

on, the motion of a body when it passes over equal spaces in equal times; equable motion. Hutton.

To unshut. [Obs.] Chaucer.

holly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent.

A meteorite or aërolite. [Obs.] Hutton.

ind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions. -- Venetian carpet, an inexpensive carpet…

ted cake cooked in a waffle iron. Waffle iron, an iron utensil or mold made in two parts shutting together, -- used for cooking waffles over a fire.

; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time. Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To ward the same. Spenser.

cies the nest is retort-shaped, with the opening at the bottom of the tube. -- Weavers' shuttle (Zoöl.), an East Indian marine univalve shell (Radius volva); -- so called from its shape. See Illust. of Shuttle shell, under Shuttle.

body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle. Youatt.

ysses' sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive. Spenser. Not web might be woven, not a shuttle thrown, or penalty of exile. Bancroft.

loth; the threads that cross the warp from selvage to selvage; the thread carried by the shuttle in weaving.

An Indian cabin or hut, usually of a conical form, and made of a framework of poles covered with hides, bark, or mats; -- called also tepee. [Sometimes written also weekwam.] Very spacious was the wigwam, Made of deerskin dressed and whitened, With the gods of the Dacotahs Drawn and painted on its curtains. Longfellow.…