Rid; clear; free.
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1. Close; the act of closing; as the shut of a door; the shut of evening. [ Little used .]
2. A small door or cover; But shutter is more generally used.
To close itself; to be closed. The door shuts of itself; it shuts hard. Certain flowers shut at night and open in the day.
1. pretand participle passive shut .
2. To close so as to hinder ingress or egress; as, to shut a door or gate; to shut the eyes or the mouth.
3. To prohibit; to bar; to forbid entrance into; as, to shut the ports of the kingdom by a blockade.
4. Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast
5. Is open? Milton .
7. But shut from every shore. Dryden .
8. To close, as the fingers; to contract; as, to shut the hand.
9. To shut in , to inclose; to confine.
10. Spoken of points of land, when by the progress of a ship, one point is brought to cover or intercept the view of another. It is then said, we shut in such a point, we shut in the land; or one point shuts in another.
11. To shut out , to preclude from entering; to deny admission to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof. An interesting subject occupying the mind, shuts out all other thoughts.
12. To shut up , to close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut up a house.
13. To obstruct.
14. Dangerous rocks shut up the passage. Raleigh .
16. To confine by legal or moral restraint.
17. Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up to the faith, which should afterwards be revealed. Galatians 3:23 .
18. To end; to terminate; to conclude.
19. When the scene of life is shut up , the slave will be above his master, if he has acted better. Collier .
1. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
2. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person.
1. The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.
2. A door or cover; a shutter.
3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.
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.
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.
1. A person that shuts or closes.
2. A door; a cover; something that closes a passage; as the shutters of a window.
1. One who shuts or closes.
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.
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.
Furnished with shutters.
Closing; prohibiting entrance; confining.
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.
To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
A cork stuck with fethers, used to be struck by a battledore in play; also, the play.
A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
See Shuttlecock.
Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
Closure Roget’s Thesaurus §261
N. closure, occlusion, blockade, shutting up, obstruction, embolus, contraction, infarction, constipation, obstipation, blind alley, blind corner, keddah, cul-de-sac, caecum, imperforation, imperviousness, impermeability, stopper
V. close, occlude, plug, block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up, button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up, blockade, obstruct, bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb, choke, throttle, ram down, dam, cram, trap, clinch, put to the door, shut the door
Adj. closed, shut, operculated, unopened, unpierced, imporous, caecal, closable, imperforate, impervious, impermeable, impenetrable, impassable, unpassable|2, invious|, pathless, wayless, untrodden, untrod, unventilated, air tight, water tight, hermetically sealed, tight, snug
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152 KJV and 63 BSB verses contain “shut” — showing the first 20. Show all 160 verses (searchable)
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.
But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.’
If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:
And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up it that hath the plague seven days:
Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
the priest is to order the contaminated article to be washed and isolated for another seven days.
And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again.
But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”
These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
These were the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The Shuthelahite clan from Shuthelah, the Becherite clan from Becher, and the Tahanite clan from Tahan.
And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
And the descendants of Shuthelah were the Eranite clan from Eran.
And then the LORD’S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.