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fellow. [Colloq.] "These unlucky little shavers." Salmagundi. As I have mentioned at the door to this young shaver, I am on a chase in the name of the king. Dickens.

t; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.

To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.

A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.

The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.

The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.

A native of Sind, India, esp. one of the native Hindoo stock.

associates; single-handed; as, to attack another singly. At omber singly to decide their doom. Pope.

A Hindoo clerk or accountant. [India]

One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.

f timbers or bars, usually arranged so as to form an inclined plane, as form a wagon to a door, along which anything is moved by sliding or rolling.

y; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play Pope. So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne.

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

A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door. [U. S.]

A bolt or bar for fastening a door. [Prov. Eng.]

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle. Breaks the doors open, snaps the locks. Prior.

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

A door latch, or sneck. [Prov. Eng.]

The bar of a gate or door. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spar buoy (Naut.), a buoy anchored by one end so that the other end rises above the surface of the water. -- Spar deck (Naut.), the upper deck of a vessel; especially, in a frigate, the deck which is continued in a straight line from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, and on…

Shaped like spatula, or like a battledoor, being roundish, with a long, narrow, linear base. [Also written spathulate.]