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To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively. My toes look through the overleather. Shak.

A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

to shed rainwater outward in openings which are to be left otherwise unfilled; as belfry windows, the openings of a louver, etc. -- Louver work, slatted work.

Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb. The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. C. Bronté.

A dormer window.

An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage. Lunette window (Arch.), a window which fills or partly fills a lunette.

A dormer window. See Dormer.

Same as Low side window, under Low, a.

To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.

utting. Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car roof, having low windows along its sides.

squito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows. -- Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels. -- Mosquito hawk (Zoöl.), a dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes. -- Mosquito netting, a loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for making mosquito…

A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc.

One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence. [Cant] Arbuthnot.

A round window, usually a small one.

A circular or oval window; -- generally used of architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries. A famous room in the palace of Versailles bears this name, from the oval window opening into it.

A small circular opening, and ring of moldings surrounding it, used in window tracery in Gothic architecture. [Written also oylet.]

ting passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead. Through the gate, Wide ope…

A blank window or panel. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.

A bay window. See Bay window. The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carven glass. Tennyson.

d; to exceed in acting. [R.] He has made me heir to treasures Would make me outact a real window's whining. Otway.