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The knocker of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

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

A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.

One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc.

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

Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.

The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] The conspersion washing the doorposts. Jer. Taylor.

ed over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door. "The starry cope of heaven." Milton.

rowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house. Gwilt. Cornice ring, the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.

lub usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.

roundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. Sir. W. Scott.

Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.

of hard substances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson.

g or squeaking sound, or the act of making such a sound. Start not at the creaking of the door. Longfellow.

The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it. [Obs.] Johnson.

A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down. Russell. Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -…

A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow.

hout order; a throng. The crowd of Vanity Fair. Macualay. Crowds that stream from yawning doors. {\*\bkmkstart here}Tennyson.

scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. Sir. W. Scott.…

aration for what is to follow. In modern painting this is usually in monochrome. -- Dead door (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door. -- Dead flat (Naut.), the widest or midship frame. -- Dead freight (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters a whole vessel b…