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A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.

A window pierced in a roof, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. I leaped from the window of the citadel. Shak. Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow. Milton.

Having windows or openings. [R.] "Looped and windowed raggedness." Shak.

Destitute of a window. Carlyle.

See Pane, n., (3) b. [In this sense, written also window pane.]

Having little crossings or openings like the sashes of a window. [R.] Donne.

e nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

tc., of these were all entered in a book called Domesday Book. -- Ancient lights (Law), windows and other openings which have been enjoined without molestation for more than twenty years. In England, and in some of the United States, they acquire a prescriptive right.

Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. -- Angle brace, Angle tie (Carp.), a brace acro…

To be opposite to; to face. The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin.

Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift. He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains. Dickens.

A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.

speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar. Bar shoe (Far.), a kind of horseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury. -- Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly u…