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A shutting off; exclusion. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

down; as, to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship. A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to keep out the rain. Macaulay.

r river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.

The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

To shut up in a dungeon. Bp. Hall.

oor, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open. -- Dutch foil, Dutch leaf, or Dutch gold, a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch mi…

e described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius. Hutton.

To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars. Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.

To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay. If that the Turkish fleet Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned. Shak.

To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.…

The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.

The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute. Hutton.

To exceed or go beyond; to surpass. She opened; but to shut Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood. Milton.

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. And non…

The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of being excluded. His sad exclusion from the doors of bliss. Milton. The exclusion of the duke from the crown of England and Ireland. Hume.

To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

. A shutting out from communion; excommunication. [Obs.] Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.

hile allowing lengthwise motion. -- Expansion valve (Steam Engine), a cut-off valve, to shut off steam from the cylinder before the end of each stroke.