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to go in and out; an entrance way. To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead. Denham.

The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 (Douay version).

A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms. [Written also Durga.] Malcom.

The frame of a door. Milton.

One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.

Without a door.

The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."

A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant.

The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway.

The sill or threshold of a door.

Entrance or place of a door. [Obs. or Local] Bp. Warburton.

The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door.

The stone forming a threshold.

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

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

At the door; of the door; as, out adoors. Shak. I took him in adoors. Vicar's Virgil (1630).

A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. Atterbury.

Acting from behind and in concealment; as backdoor intrigues.