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Cage :: Cage (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine..

Snap :: Snap (n.) To strike, to hit, or to shut, with a sharp sound..

Blink :: Blink (v. t.) To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question..

Exclude :: Exclude (v. t.) To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting..

Compinge :: Compinge (v. t.) To compress; to shut up.

Shuttle :: Shuttle (n.) 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.

Hinder :: Hinder (a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.

Embay :: Embay (v. t.) To shut in, or shelter, as in a bay..

Impen :: Impen (v. t.) To shut up or inclose, as in a pen..

Shittlecock :: Shittlecock (n.) A shuttlecock.

Clausure :: Clausure (n.) The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.

Shut :: Shut (imp. & p. p.) of Shu.

Diorama :: Diorama (n.) A mode of scenic representation, invented by Daguerre and Bouton, in which a painting is seen from a distance through a large opening. By a combination of transparent and opaque painting, and of transmitted and reflected light, and by contrivances such as screens and shutters, much diversity of scenic effect is produced..

Shiver :: Shiver (n.) A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter..

Preclusion :: Preclusion (n.) The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out..

Shut :: Shut (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..

Wink :: Wink (v. i.) To avoid taking notice, as if by shutting the eyes; to connive at anything; to be tolerant; -- generally with at..

Shuttle :: Shuttle (v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle..

Shuttlecock :: Shuttlecock (v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words..

Impound :: Impound (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping..

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