shut 
To shut In, to settle down or around ; fall : said of night, 
the close of day, or the like. 
This year, on the 26th of January, at the shutting in of 
the evening, there was a very great earthquake. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 288. 
Usually after Supper, if the day was not shut in, I took 
a ramble about the Village, to see what was worth taking 
notice of. Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 90. 
To shut up. (t) To terminate ; end. 
Actions begunne in glory shut up in shame. 
Bp. Hall, Contemplations, ii. 2. 
(b) To desist ; leave off ; especially, to stop talking. [Col- 
loq.] 
So, having succeeded in contradicting myself in my first 
chapter, ... I shall here ehut up for the present 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 1. 
"I want Harry! "said the child. "Well, you can't 
have Hairy ; and I won't have ye bawling. Now ehut up 
and go to sleep, or I'll whip you !" 
H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 115. 
(c) In sporting, to give out, as one horse when challenged 
by another in a race. Krik's Guide to the Turf. 
shut 1 (shut), p. a. [Pp. of shut, i>.] 1. Made 
fast or close ; closed ; inclosed. See shut 1 , v. 
A delicnt* blush, no fainter tinge is born 
I' the shut heart of a bud. Browning, Paracelsus. 
In still, shut bays, on windy capes, 
He heard the call of beckoning shapes. 
Whittier, Tent on the Beach. 
2. Not resonant or sonorous ; dull : said of 
sound. 3. In orthoepy, having the sound sud- 
denly interrupted or stopped by a succeeding 
consonant, as the i in pit or the o in got. 4. 
Separated, precluded, or hindered ; hence, free ; 
clear ; rid : followed by of: used chiefly in such 
phrases as to get shut of, to be shut of. Also 
sliet. [Prov. Eng. and I). 8.] 
Ehud the son of Oera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded 
[margin, ihut of his right hand). Judges ill. IS. 
We are shut of him, 
He will be seen no more here. 
Massinger, Unnatural Combat, ill. 1. 
We'll bring him out of doors. 
Would we were shut of him. 
Shirley, Maid's Revenge, li. '. 
I never knew how I liked the gray garron till I was shut 
of him an' Asia. K. Kipling, The Big Drunk Draf'. 
shut 1 (shut), n. [< shaft, .] 1. The act of 
shutting, in any sense of the word. 2. The 
time of shutting. 
In a shady nook I stood, . . . 
Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers. 
Milton, P. L., Ix. 278. 
It was the custom then to bring away 
The bride from home at blushing shut of day. 
Keats, I ,;imi:i, ii. 
3f. That which shuts, closes, or covers; a shut- 
ter. 
At Eton I ... find all mighty fine. The school good, 
and the custom pretty of boys cutting their names in the 
shuts of the windows when they go to Cambridge. 
Pepys, Diary, II. 358. 
When you bar the window-A(s of your lady's bed- 
chamber at nights, leave open the sashes, to let in the 
fresh air. Swtft, Directions to Servants, viii. 
4. The point or line of shutting; specifically, 
the line where two pieces of metal are united 
by welding. 5. A riddance. Hallmell. [Prov. 
Eng.] Cold shut, (o) An Imperfection of a casting 
caused by the flowing of liquid metal on partially chilled 
metal, (b) An imperfect welding in a forging, caused by 
the inadequate heat of one surface under working. 
Shut 2 (shut), n. [Also shutt; a var. of shoft, 
shote 1 .] The grayling Thymallusvulgaris. Day. 
[Local, Eng. (on the Teme).] 
shut-down (shut'doun), n. [< sJnit down, verb- 
phrase under shut 1 , v.] A shutting down; a 
discontinuance, especially of work in a mill, 
factory, or the like. 
So far from there having been a cave-in of the supply 
[of oil], says " Engineering," there has really been a shut- 
down of a large number of wells, to check a wasteful over- 
production. Science, XIV. 283. 
shute 1 , . See chute, shoot. 
shute 2 (shot), n. Same as tram in the sense 
of ' twisted silk.' 
shuther, . and n. A dialectal variant of shud- 
der. 
shut-off (shut'df), n. [< shut off, verb-phrase 
under shut 1 , .] That which shuts off, closes, 
stops, or prevents ; stoppage of anything; spe- 
cifically, in hunting and fishing, the close-sea- 
son for game. 
Shutt, n. See shut?. 
shuttance (shut'ans), n. [< shufl + -ance.] 
Riddance. Hallticell. [Prov. Eng.] 
Shutten Saturday! (shut'n sat'er-da). The 
Saturday in Holy Week, as the day on which 
the Saviour's body lay inclosed in the tomb. 
Hftlliwell. 
shutter (shut'er), n. [< shut 1 + -er 1 .] One 
who or that which shuts, (o) A lid ; a cover ; a cas- 
ing. 
5606 
This picture is always cover'd with 3 shutters, one of 
which is of massie silver. Evelyn, Diary, May 21, 1645. 
Hence, specifically (b) A frame or panel of wood or iron 
or other strong material used as a cover, usually for a 
window, in order to shut out the light, to prevent spec- 
tators from seeing the interior, or to serve as a protection 
for the aperture. There are inside and outside shutters. 
Inside shutters are usually in several hinged pieces which 
fold back into a recessed casing in the wall called a box- 
ing. The principal piece is called the front shutter, and 
the auxiliary piece a back flap. Some shutters are ar- 
ranged to be opened or closed by a sliding movement 
either horizontally or vertically, and others, particularly 
those for shops, are made in sections, so as to be entirely 
removable from the window. Shutters for shop-fronts 
are also made to roll up like curtains, to fold like Vene- 
tian blinds, etc. 
If the Sun is incommodious, we have thick folding Shut- 
ters on the out-Side, and thin ones within, to prevent 
that. N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, 1. 198. 
Surely not loath 
Wast thou, Heine ! to lie 
Quiet, to ask for closed 
Shutters, and darken'd room. 
M. Arnold, Heine's Grave. 
(c) In organ-building, one of the blinds of which the front 
of the swell-box is made. By means of a foot-lever or 
pedal the shutters of the box can be opened so as to let 
the sound out, or closed so as to deaden It. (d) That which 
closes or ends. 
That hour 
The last of hours, and shutter up of all. 
B. Jonson, Underwoods, cii. 
() In photog. , a device for opening and again closing a lens 
mechanically, In order to make an exposure, especially a 
so-called instantaneous exposure occupying a fraction of 
a second. The kinds of shutters are Innumerable, the 
simplest being the drop or guillotine shutter, in which a 
thin perforated piece slides in grooves by gravity when 
released, so that the perforation in falling passes across 
the field of the lens. The more mechanically elaborate 
shutters are actuated by springs, and are commonly so ar- 
ranged that the speed of the exposure can be regulated. 
Bolt and shutter. See (wi. Boxed shutter, a win- 
dow-shutter so made as to fold back into a recessed box 
or casing. Shutter In. (a) A plank, called a stroke, that 
is fitted with more than ordinary accuracy to the planks 
between which it is placed. All the measurements in re- 
gard to its width and bevelings are taken with the greatest 
care, (6) Evening. BalliweU. tProv. Eng.] 
Shutter (shut'er), v. t. [< shutter, .] 1. To 
provide or cover with shutters. 
Here is Garraway's, bolted and shuttered hard and fast! 
Dickens, Uncommercial Traveller, xxi. 
The School-house windows were all shuttered up. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 9. 
2. To separate or hide by shutters. [Bare.] 
A workman or a pedlar cannot shutter himself off from 
his less comfortable neighbors. 
R. L. Stevenson, Inland Voyage, p. 75. 
shutter-dam (shut'er-dam), n. In hydraul. en- 
gin., a form of barrage or movable dam employ- 
ing large gates or shutters which are opened 
and closed by means of a turbine : used in slack- 
water navigation. See barrage. 
shutter-eye (shut'er-I), . An eye or socket for 
supporting a shutter. It has a projecting flange, 
and is built into the wall. E. H. Knight. 
shutterless (shut'er-les), a. [< shutter + -less.'} 
Having no shutters. 
As they entered the garden they saw through the shut- 
terless window two men, one of whom was seated, while 
the other was pacing the floor. 
Harper's Mag., LXXX. 353. 
shutter-lift (shut'er-lif t), n. A handle fixed to 
a shutter for convenience in opening or clos- 
ing it. 
shutter-lock (shut'er-lok), n. In carp., a mor- 
tise-lock in the edge of a shutter or door. 
E. S. Knight. 
shutter-screw (shut'er-skro), . A screw by 
which a shutter is secured, passing through a 
socket from the interior to be protected, and 
engaging a nut so mortised in the inner side of 
the shutter as not to be exposed on the outside. 
shutting (shut'ing), n. [Verbal n. of shufl, .] 
The act indicated by the verb shut in any of its 
senses ; specifically, the act of joining or -weld- 
ing one piece of iron to another. Also called 
shutting up or shutting together. 
shutting-post (shut'ing-post), n. A post against 
which a gate or door closes. E. H. Knight. 
shuttle 1 (shut'l), n. [Early mod. E. also shit- 
tle, shyttell; < ME. schyttyl, schytle, schitel, sche- 
tyl, ssettel, a shuttle, a bolt of a door, < AS. "scy- 
tels, scytteJs (pi. scyttetsas), the bolt of a door 
(cf. Sw. dial, skyttel, skottel = Dan. skyttel, a 
shuttle; cf. also' Dan. stytte, Q. (weber-)schutz, 
a shuttle, Sw. skot-spol = D. schiet-spoel = G. 
schiess-spuhle, a shuttle, lit. 'shoot-spool'), < 
sceotan, shoot : see shoot, and cf. shufl. Cf. 
skittle.] If. A bolt or bar, as of a door. 
God zayth ine the hoc of loue, "My zoster, my lemman, 
thou art a gardin besset myd tuo ssetteles." 
Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. ..), p. 94. 
Schyttyl, or [var. of] sperynge. Pessulum vel pessellum. 
Prompt. Parv., p. 447. 
shuttle-check 
2. An instrument used by weavers for passing 
or shooting the thread of the weft from one side 
of the web to the other between the threads of 
the warp. The modern shuttle is a sort of wooden car- 
riage tapering at each end, and hollowed out in the mid- 
a, body of shuttle ; *, yarn wound on the bobbin d; c, eye through 
wltich the yarn is led, ana then passed out through holey"/ t, t, metal 
points. 
die for the reception of the bobbin or pirn on which the 
weft is wound. The weft unwinds from this bobbin as the 
shuttle runs from one side of the web to the other. It is 
driven across by a smart blow from a pin called a picker or 
driver. There is one of these pins on each side of the loom, 
and the two are connected by a cord to which a handle Is at- 
tached. Holding this handle in his right hand, the weaver 
moves the two pins together in each direction alternately 
by a sudden jerk. A shuttle propelled in this manner 
is called a fly-shuttle, and was invented in 1738 by John 
Kay, a mechanic of Colchester, England. Before this in- 
vention the weaver took the shuttle between the finger 
and thumb of each hand alternately and threw it across, 
by which process much time was lost. There are also a 
great variety of automatic picker-motions for driving the 
shuttles of looms. Compare picker-motion. 
Sc[h)ytyl, webstarys instrument. Prompt. Parv., p. 447. 
Their faces run like shittles; they are weaving 
Some curious cobweb to catch flies. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, Hi. 1. 
3. In sewing-machines, the sliding thread-hold- 
er which carries the lower thread between the 
needle and the upper thread to make a lock- 
stitch. See cuts under sewing-machine. 4. The 
gate which opens to allow the water to flow on 
a water-wheel. 5. One of the sections of a 
shutter-dam. E. H. Knight. 6. A small gate 
or stop through which metal is allowed to pass 
from the trough to the mold. 7t. A shuttle- 
cock ; also, the game known as shuttlecock. 
Schytle, chyldys game. Sagittella. 
Prompt. Parv., p. 447. 
Positive-motion shuttle, a device, invented by James 
Lyall of New York, for causing the shuttle to travel 
through the shed with a positive, uniform motion. The 
shuttle travels on a roller-carriage drawn by a cord in the 
shuttle-race below the warp-threads, and having also a set 
of upper rollers. The shuttle has also a pair of under 
rollers, one at each end, and travels over the lower series 
of warp-threads through the shed, being pushed along by 
the carriage while the warp-threads are passed, without 
straining them, between the upper rollers of the carriage 
and the rollers of the shuttle. Compare positive-motion 
loom, under loom. Weaver's-shuttle, in conch., a shut- 
tle-shell, as Jiatlius votva. See cut under shuttle-shell. 
shuttle 1 (shut'l), v. ; pret. and pp. shuttled, ppr. 
shuttling. [< shuttle*, .] I. trans. To move 
to and fro like a shuttle. 
A face of extreme mobility, which he shuttles about 
eyebrows, eyes, mouth and all in a very singular manner 
while speaking. Carlyle, in Froude, I. 152. 
II. intrans. To go back and forth like a 
shuttle ; travel to and fro. 
Their corps go marching and shuttling in the interior of 
the country, much nearer Paris than formerly. 
Carlyle, French Rev., II. vL 1. 
Those [olive groves) in the distance look more hoary and 
soft, as though a veil of light cunningly woven by the 
shuttling of the rays hung over them. 
The Century XXXVII. 422. 
shuttle 2 (shut'l), a. [Early mod. E. also shit- 
tie; < ME. schityl, schytyl, schytylle; with adj. 
formative -el, < AS. sceotan (pp. scoten), shoot : 
see shoot, n. Cf. shuttle*, shyttell.] If. Head- 
long; rash; thoughtless; unsteady; volatile. 
Shyttell, nat constant, . . . variable. Palsgrave, p. 323. 
2. Slippery; sliding. HalUwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
shuttle-binder (shut'l-bin"der), n. In a loom, 
a device in a shuttle-box to prevent the recoil 
or rebound of the shuttle after it is thrown by 
the picker. Also called shuttle-check. E. H. 
Knight. 
shuttle-board (shut'1-bord), n. A shuttle- 
cock. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
shuttle-box (shut'1-boks), . A receptacle for 
holding shuttles, especially one near the loom 
and attached to it, intended to receive the shut- 
tle at the end of its race or movement across 
the web ; a pattern-box. Shuttle-boxes are combined 
together so as to form a set of compartments for holding 
the shuttles carrying threads of different colors, w hen such 
are in use in weaving. 
shuttle-brainedt (shut'l-brand), a. Scatter- 
brained; flighty; thoughtless; unsteady of 
purpose. 
Metellns was so shuttle-brained that euen in the middes 
of his tribuneship he left his office in Rome, and sallied to 
Pompeius in Syria. 
Udatt, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 341. 
shuttle-check (shut'1-chek), . Same as 
shuttle-binder. 
