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WINDOW, n. [ G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]

1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary. This opening has a frame on the sides, in which are set movable sashes, containing panes of glass. In the United Sates, the sashes are made to rise and fall, for the admission or exclusion of air. In France, windows are shut with frames or sashes that open and shut vertically, like the leaves of a folding door.

2. An aperture or opening.

A window shalt thou make to the ark. Genesis 6.

3. The frame or other thing that covers the aperture.

Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.

4. An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts.

The windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7.

5. Lattice or casement; or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges 5.

6. Lines crossing each other.

Till he has windows on his bread and butter.

WINDOW, v.t.

1. To furnish with windows.

2. To place at a window. [Unusual.]

3. To break into openings. [Unusual.]



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WINDOW, n. [ G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]

1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary. This opening has a frame on the sides, in which are set movable sashes, containing panes of glass. In the United Sates, the sashes are made to rise and fall, for the admission or exclusion of air. In France, windows are shut with frames or sashes that open and shut vertically, like the leaves of a folding door.

2. An aperture or opening.

A window shalt thou make to the ark. Genesis 6.

3. The frame or other thing that covers the aperture.

Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.

4. An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts.

The windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7.

5. Lattice or casement; or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges 5.

6. Lines crossing each other.

Till he has windows on his bread and butter.

WINDOW, v.t.

1. To furnish with windows.

2. To place at a window. [Unusual.]

3. To break into openings. [Unusual.]

WIND'OW, n. [Dan. vindue; Sp. ventana, from the same root as venta, sale, vent of goods. The word in Spanish signifies also a nostril, that is, a passage. Ventaja is advantage; ventalla, a valve, and ventalle, a fan; ventear, to blow. Hence we see that vent, L. vendo, wind, fan, and van, Fr. avant, are all of one family. So is also the L. fenestra, Fr. fenêtre, D. venster, G. fenster, Ir. fineog. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwynt-dor, wind-door.]

  1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary. This opening has a frame on the sides, in which are set movable sashes, containing panes of glass. In the United States, the sashes are made to rise and fall, for the admission or exclusion of air. In France, windows are shut with frames or sashes that open and shut vertically, like the leaves of a folding door.
  2. An aperture or opening. A window shalt thou make to the ark. – Gen. vi.
  3. The frame or other thing that covers the aperture. Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes. – Shak.
  4. An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts. The windows of heaven were opened. – Gen. vii.
  5. Lattice or casement; or the net work of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges v.
  6. Lines crossing each other. Till he has windows on his bread and butter. – King.

WIND'OW, v.t.

  1. To furnish with windows. – Wotton. Pope.
  2. To place at a window. [Unusual.]
  3. To break into openings. [Unusual.] – Shak.

Win"dow
  1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.

    I leaped from the window of the citadel. Shak.

    Then to come, in spite of sorrow,
    And at my window bid good morrow.
    Milton.

  2. To furnish with windows.
  3. The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
  4. To place at or in a window.

    [R.]

    Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see
    Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down
    His corrigible neck?
    Shak.

  5. A figure formed of lines crossing each other.

    [R.]

    Till he has windows on his bread and butter. King.

    French window (Arch.), a casement window in two folds, usually reaching to the floor; -- called also French casement. -- Window back (Arch.), the inside face of the low, and usually thin, piece of wall between the window sill and the floor below. -- Window blind, a blind or shade for a window. -- Window bole, part of a window closed by a shutter which can be opened at will. [Scot.] -- Window box, one of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash. -- Window frame, the frame of a window which receives and holds the sashes or casement. -- Window glass, panes of glass for windows; the kind of glass used in windows. -- Window martin (Zoöl.), the common European martin. [Prov. Eng.] -- Window oyster (Zoöl.), a marine bivalve shell (Placuna placenta) native of the East Indies and China. Its valves are very broad, thin, and translucent, and are said to have been used formerly in place of glass. -- Window pane. (a) (Arch.) See Pane, n., 3 (b). (b) (Zoöl.) See Windowpane, in the Vocabulary. -- Window sash, the sash, or light frame, in which panes of glass are set for windows. -- Window seat, a seat arranged in the recess of a window. See Window stool, under Stool. -- Window shade, a shade or blind for a window; usually, one that is hung on a roller. -- Window shell (Zoöl.), the window oyster. -- Window shutter, a shutter or blind used to close or darken windows. -- Window sill (Arch.), the flat piece of wood, stone, or the like, at the bottom of a window frame. -- Window swallow (Zoöl.), the common European martin. [Prov. Eng.] -- Window tax, a tax or duty formerly levied on all windows, or openings for light, above the number of eight in houses standing in cities or towns. [Eng.]

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Window

WINDOW, noun [ G. The vulgar pronunciation is windor, as if from the Welsh gwyntdor, wind-door.]

1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light, and of air when necessary. This opening has a frame on the sides, in which are set movable sashes, containing panes of glass. In the United Sates, the sashes are made to rise and fall, for the admission or exclusion of air. In France, windows are shut with frames or sashes that open and shut vertically, like the leaves of a folding door.

2. An aperture or opening.

A window shalt thou make to the ark. Genesis 6:16.

3. The frame or other thing that covers the aperture.

Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.

4. An aperture; or rather the clouds or water-spouts.

The windows of heaven were opened. Genesis 7:11.

5. Lattice or casement; or the network of wire used before the invention of glass. Judges 5:28.

6. Lines crossing each other.

Till he has windows on his bread and butter.

WINDOW, verb transitive

1. To furnish with windows.

2. To place at a window [Unusual.]

3. To break into openings. [Unusual.]

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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clay

CLAY, n.

1. The name of certain substances which are mixtures of silex and alumin, sometimes with lime, magnesia, alkali and metallic oxyds. A species of earths which are firmly coherent, weighty, compact, and hard when dry, but stiff, viscid and ductile when moist, and smooth to the touch; not readily diffusible in water, and when mixed, not readily subsiding in it. They contract by heat. Clays absorb water greedily, and become soft, but are so tenacious as to be molded into any shape, and hence they are the materials of bricks and various vessels, domestic and chimical.

2. In poetry and in scripture, earth in general.

3. In scripture, clay is used to express frailty, liableness to decay and destruction.

They that dwell in houses of clay. Job. 4.

CLAY, v.t.

1. To cover or manure with clay.

2. To purify and whiten with clay, as sugar.

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