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king's oath to the contrary. Shak. Numbers were crowded to death. Clarendon. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. Dryden. Go, buckle to the law. Dryden.

in vehicle in def. 1); now, one with sides closing in the seat or seats and entered by a door usually at the side, also, the entire body of an automobile having such an after part.

To come to; to reach; to attain to. The god, vindictive, doomed them never more-Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore. Pope.

A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is the horizontal, as mullion is the vertical, bar across an opening. See Illust. of Mullion.

A kind of movable stepladder. Knight. Trap stairs, a staircase leading to a trapdoor. -- Trap tree (Bot.) the jack; -- so called because it furnishes a kind of birdlime. See 1st Jack.

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

A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like. Men drinken and the travers draw anon. Chaucer. And the entrance of the king, The first traverse was drawn. F. Beaumont.

ouped by threes, three things or circumstances of a kind being mentioned together. -- Hindoo triad. See Trimurti.

A monument consisting of three stones; especially, such a monument forming a kind of doorway, as among the ancient Celts.

The triad, or trinity, of Hindoo gods, consisting of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. [Spelled also Trimurtti.]

Any union of three in one; three units treated as one; a triad, as the Hindoo trinity, or Trimurti.

t bounded as he sometimes could hear the trip of a light female step glide to or from the door. Sir W. Scott.

t, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. The wakeful trump of doom. Milton.

nsect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindoo to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like. The Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee. Deut. xxx. 3. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. 2…

A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder.

A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.

To unbolt; to unbar; to open. You shall not unbarricade the door. J. Webster (1623).

putation; food in the stomach undergoes the process of digestion. Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.

Resting on a track at the bottom, instead of being suspended; - - said of a sliding door. Forney.

To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.