Shut /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Shut; p. pr. & vb. n. Shutting

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

   Shall that be shut to man which to the beast Is open?

3. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out.
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.

   Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

   When the scene of life is shut up, the slave will be above his master if he has acted better.

1. To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it shuts hard.

1. Closed or fastened; as, a shut door.
2. Rid; clear; free; as, to get shut of a person. [Now dialectical or local, Eng. & U.S.]
3. 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. (Phon.)

1. The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.

   Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.

2. A door or cover; a shutter. [Obs.]
3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.