v. t. To shut up or out. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a principality in the Himalayas northeast of India. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
Syn. -- Bhutani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bhutan. Bhutanese Buddhists
Syn. -- Bhutani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the Bhutani language or people. Bhutani Buddhists
Syn. -- Bhutanese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bhutan. Bhutani mountains [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Bhutan.
Syn. -- Bhutanese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. chute, prop. a fall. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. See Shoot. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Hind. chatnī. ] 1. A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, such as chopped fruits or green tomatoes, etc., often cooked with sweets and acids such as sugar and vinegar, with ginger and spices.
Syn. -- Indian relish. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Yiddish khutzpa. ] aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; gall; as, he had the chutzpah to question my decision. [ Also spelled hutzpa, and hutzpah. ]
Syn. -- audacity, audaciousness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A kind of net to catch woodcock. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cockshut time or
Cockshut light, evening twilight; nightfall; -- so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread. [ Obs. ] Shak. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Metal.) Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n. An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small ingot of gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A silver ingot, used in Japan as money. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hotte; akin to D. hut, G. hütte, OHG. hutta, Dan. hytte, Sw. hydda; and F. hutte, of G. origin; all akin to E. hide to conceal. See Hude to conceal. ] A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death comes on with equal footsteps
To the hall and hut. Bp. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Hutted p. pr. & vb. n. Hutting. ] To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters. [ 1913 Webster ]

The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hucche, huche, hoche, F. huche, LL. hutica. ] 1. A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A measure of two Winchester bushels. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) The case of a flour bolt. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) (a) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit. (b) A jig for washing ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bolting hutch,
Booby hutch, etc. See under Bolting, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hutched p. pr. & vb. n. Hutching. ] 1. To hoard or lay up, in a chest. [ R. ] “She hutched the . . . ore.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So named after two English bonesetters, Richard and Robert Hutton, who made it a part of their method. ] (Med.) Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Ar. ] An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Muslim mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To shut out. [ R. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. parer to ward off, guard + chute a fall. See Parry, and Chute, Chance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A device made of a piece of cloth, usually silk, attached to multiple chords fastened to a harness; when attached to a person or object falling through the air, it opens from a folded configuration into an umbrella-shaped form, thus slowing the rate of descent so that a safe descent and landing may be made through the air from an airplane, balloon, or other high point. It is commonly used for descending to the ground from a flying airplane, as for military operations (as of airborne troops) or in an emergency, or for sport. In the case of use as a sport, the descent from an airplane by parachute is called sky diving. Some older versions of parachute were more rigid, and were shaped somewhat in the form of an umbrella.

2. (Zool.) A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. TO descend to th ground from an airplane or other high place using a parachute; as, when the plane stalled, he parachuted safely to the ground. [ PJC ]

golden parachute a generous set of financial benefits, including severance pay, provided by contract to a high-level corporate employee in the event s/he is dismissed or his/her job is lost in a corporate takeover or merger; also, the contract providing for such benefits. --
drogue parachute a small parachute that is first released and opened in order to more reliably deploy a larger parachute. Also called drogue. [ PJC ]

n. The act or process of descending from a high altitude to the ground by means of a parachute. [ PJC ]

n. One who descends from a high altitude to the ground by means of a parachute, especially one who does so for sport or in a military operation. [ PJC ]

n. See Penstock. [ 1913 Webster ]

phrase Do what you claim you can do; -- a challenge to someone who has claimed some ability. [ colloq. ] [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shut; p. pr. & vb. n. Shutting. ] [ OE. shutten, schutten, shetten, schitten, AS. scyttan to shut or lock up (akin to D. schutten, G. schützen to protect), properly, to fasten with a bolt or bar shot across, fr. AS. sceótan to shoot. √159. See Shoot. ] 1. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or a gate; to shut one's eyes or mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall that be shut to man which to the beast
Is open? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. “Shut from every shore.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To fold together; to close over, as the fingers; to close by bringing the parts together; as, to shut the hand; to shut a book. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shut in. (a) To inclose; to confine. “The Lord shut him in.” Cen. vii. 16. (b) To cover or intercept the view of; as, one point shuts in another. --
To shut off. (a) To exclude. (b) To prevent the passage of, as steam through a pipe, or water through a flume, by closing a cock, valve, or gate. --
To shut out, to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof. --
To shut together, to unite; to close, especially to close by welding. --
To shut up. (a) To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house. (b) To obstruct. “Dangerous rocks shut up the passage.” Sir W. Raleigh. (c) To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as, to shut up a prisoner. [ 1913 Webster ] Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Gal. iii. 23. [ 1913 Webster ] (d) To end; to terminate; to conclude. [ 1913 Webster ] When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ] (e) To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding. (f) To cause to become silent by authority, argument, or force. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard. [ 1913 Webster ]

To shut up, to cease speaking. [ Colloq. ] T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. [ Now dialectical or local, Eng. & U.S. ] L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Phon.) (a) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g. H. Sweet. (b) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, ă, &ebreve_;, &ibreve_;, &obreve_;, ŭ, always are. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door. [ 1913 Webster ]

Just then returned at shut of evening flowers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A door or cover; a shutter. [ Obs. ] Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cold shut, the imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal; also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the inadequate heat of one surface under working. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Chute, or Shoot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who shuts or closes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Photog.) A mechanical device of various forms, attached to the aperture of a camera lens for opening and closing to expose the plate. It is usually designed so that the time during which the aperture is opened may be varied by a manual dial or by some automatic mechanism, thereby allowing proper exposure of a photographic film under different intensities of light. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. Furnished with shutters. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle. [ 1913 Webster ]

I had to fly far and wide, shutting athwart the big Babel, wherever his calls and pauses had to be. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Also shittle, OE. schitel, scytyl, schetyl; cf. OE. schitel a bolt of a door, AS. scyttes; all from AS. sceótan to shoot; akin to Dan. skyttel, skytte, shuttle, dial. Sw. skyttel, sköttel. √159. See Shoot, and cf. Shittle, Skittles. ] 1. An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide
My feathered hours. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shuttle box (Weaving), a case at the end of a shuttle race, to receive the shuttle after it has passed the thread of the warp; also, one of a set of compartments containing shuttles with different colored threads, which are passed back and forth in a certain order, according to the pattern of the cloth woven. --
Shutten race, a sort of shelf in a loom, beneath the warp, along which the shuttle passes; a channel or guide along which the shuttle passes in a sewing machine. --
Shuttle shell (Zool.), any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Volva, or Radius, having a smooth, spindle-shaped shell prolonged into a channel at each end. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shuttlecock. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a reusable vehicle that can carry people or objects into orbit around the earth and return to be used again for subsequent trips; -- distinguished from rockets that are used only once. The present (1997) American space shuttle is a manned vehicle, having an external fuel tank that is expendable and not re-used. [ PJC ]

a. Closed from beneath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Undershut valve (Mach.), a valve which shuts by being lifted against a seat facing downward. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + shut. ] To open, or throw open. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + shutter. ] To open or remove the shutters of. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]