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Furnished with shutters.

f the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. Sandys.

To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words. Thackeray.

See Shuttlecock.

Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.

Closed from beneath. Undershut valve (Mach.), a valve which shuts by being lifted against a seat facing downward. Knight.

To open, or throw open. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To open or remove the shutters of. T. Hughes.

Behind in place; as, men in line one after another. "Shut doors after you." Shak.

o; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. Tyndale.

A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [Colloq. U. S.]

has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

Obtuse-angled. [Obs.] Hutton.

By reflection; as, echoes are sound produced anacamptically. Hutton.

tform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.

power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor. Though Heaven be shut, And Heaven's high Arbitrators sit secure. Milton. Masters of their own terms and arbitrators of a peace. Addison.

- Artificial sines, tangents, etc., the same as logarithms of the natural, tangents, etc. Hutton.

h it lies), the diameter of the sphere which is perpendicular to the plane of the circle. Hutton. -- Axis of the Ionic capital (Arch.), a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute. -- Neutral axis (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the horizontal elastic forces of tension and comp…

A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.

noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.