2. Noun. (plural of shut#Etymology 2 shut) ¹
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Definition of Shuts
1. shut [v] - See also: shut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shuts
Literary usage of Shuts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"Their offence, had it been sufficient!;; the temple. . . . ~ Julian shuts ,.
, , , tT •,. might have .justified the retaliation, whicl the cathedral ..."
2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"In this pitiable case of involuntary crime, the legislature, by directing the
execution immediately to follow the sentence, shuts out the possibility of ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1877)
"The outer wall of the Eustachian tube lines the drum, and covers in the long
process of tlie hammer; the inner wall shuts the stapes from the tympanic ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... in relation to the arrangement of words in " ' The fresh earth in new leaves
drest,' " where nearly every word shuts up the mouth instead of opening it. ..."
5. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"His deeds inimitable, tike the sea That shuts still as it opes, and lea ves no
tract* Nor ... shuts ..."
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