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The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, where one stripped; a dressing room.

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

, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature.

An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

t; to frustrate; to foil; to baffle; to as, to balk expectation. They shall not balk my entrance. Byron.

onfine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in…

ructure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

f doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.

To obstruct entrance to or egress from. Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door. Pope.

A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a funnel- shaped entrance at one end.

onsisting of a straight tube, four or five inches in length, having small holes for the entrance of air at the bottom. Illuminating gas being also admitted at the bottom, a mixture of gas and air is formed which burns at the top with a feebly luminous but intensely hot flame. -- Argand burner, Rose burner, etc. See un…

The blind part of the large intestine beyond the entrance of the small intestine; -- called also the blind gut.

A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins.

e. -- Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those who alight from vehicles at the door; -- sometimes erroneously called in the United States porte-cochère.

A monster, in the shape, of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.

Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning. "The goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof." Ezek. xliii. 11

the companion way; a companion hatch. Companion hatch (Naut.), a wooden porch over the entrance or staircase of the cabin. -- Companion ladder (Naut.), the ladder by which officers ascend to, or descend from, the quarter-deck. Totten. -- Companion way (Naut.), a staircase leading to the cabin. -- Knights companions…

ternal ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; a doorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.