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To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude. [Obs.] "Canceled from heaven." Milton.

That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics. Hutton.

by, or involving, both the reflection and refraction of light; as, a catadioptric light. Hutton.

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit. The heroic confessor in his cell. Macaulay.

A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth.

To shut up, as inn a chamber. Shak.

A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay. Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out. Wildly we roam in discontent about. Dryden.

To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).

Shutting; confining; drawing together; as, a claudent muscle. [R.] Jonson

The act of shutting up or confining; confinement. [R.] Geddes.

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal. [R.] Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge. Cowper.

The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

alleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.

An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun. Hutton.

To compress; to shut up. [Obs.] Burton.

ch; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset. The custom of godly man been to shut up the evening with a compline of prayer at nine of the night. Hammond.

The body of cardinals shut up in the conclave for the election of a pope; hence, the body of cardinals. It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. South.

To shut up; to inclose. [Obs.] The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave. Hooker.

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. To be confined, to be in childbed.