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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.

Furnished with shutters.

of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. Sandys.

To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words. Thackeray.

See Shuttlecock.

Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.

To shut up or out. [Obs.]

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.

To shut out. [R.] Donne.

Closed from beneath. Undershut valve (Mach.), a valve which shuts by being lifted against a seat facing downward. Knight.

To open, or throw open. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To open or remove the shutters of. T. Hughes.

Behind in place; as, men in line one after another. "Shut doors after you." Shak.

to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. Tyndale.

A stove the draft of which can be almost entirely shut off. [Colloq. U. S.]

has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.

atform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.