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by closing a cock, valve, or gate. -- To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof. -- To shut together, to unite; to close, especially to close by welding. -- To shut up. (a) To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house. (b) To…

, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission. Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. John viii. 34. Sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John iii. 4. I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win. Shak. Enthralled By sin to…

transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission. The sitting closed in great agitation. Macaulay.

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

in the roof of a building, in the ceiling of a room, or in the deck of a ship, for the admission of light from above.

A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will. The vulgar slaveries rich men submit to. C. Lever. There is a slavery that no legislation can abolish, -- the slavery of caste. G. W. Cable.

To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss. When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Pope.

for mutual or joint usefulness, pleasure, or profit; a social union; a partnership; as, a missionary society.

and the eternity of future punishment. His theory was, that Christ was a man divinely commissioned, who had no existence before he was conceived by the Virgin Mary; that human sin was the imitation of Adam's sin, and that human salvation was the imitation and adoption of Christ's virtue; that the Bible was to be inter…

contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.

The emission of sperm, or semen.

Abnormally frequent involuntary emission of the semen without copulation.

To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation. [Obs.] W. Cartright.

is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title. In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were tolerated to an extent now unknown. Macaulay.

To come to an end; to cease; as, that day the storm stayed. [Archaic] Here my commission stays. Shak.

They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission. Spenser. He will steal himself into a man's favor. Shak.

nd; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.

Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order (Com.), a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.

The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer. Stars and Stripes. See under Star, n.

A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.