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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4 words match “OPEN DOOR”

OPEN DOOR n. 2 definitions
Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity.
JIMMY n.
A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors. [Written also jemmy.]
OPEN a.
g or preventing 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 gat…
STARVEDLY adv.
dition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.