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lightly built or temporary structure. Death comes on with equal footsteps To the hall and hut. Bp. Coxe.

To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving.

A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology.

ating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton. Lyell.

Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.

To shut up or out. [Obs.]

A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

A kind of net to catch woodcock. [Obs.] Nares. Cockshut time or light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [Obs.] Shak. B. Jonson.

Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n.

A small ingot of gold.

One of the Moravians; -- so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.

An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes.

To shut out. [R.] Donne.

See Utes.

A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.

See Penstock.

To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth.

Same as Chute, or Shoot.

One who shuts or closes.