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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.

pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty. Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan. Gray. And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx.…

ct of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture. A legal and judicial condemnation. Paley. Whose condemnation is pronounced. Shak.

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

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

To defeat; to doom to destruction. [Obs.] A whole armado of convicted sail. Shak.

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.

A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles. Whitworth.

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.

ng house; the crack of thunder; the crack of a whip. Will the stretch out to the crack of doom Shak.

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.

t of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. Locke.

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.