\Shut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shut}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shutting}.] [OE. shutten, schutten, shetten, schitten, AS.
scyttan to shut or lock up (akin to D. schutten, G.
sch["u]tzen to protect), properly, to fasten with a bolt or
bar shot across, fr. AS. sce['o]tan to shoot. [root]159. See
{Shoot}.]
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?                                 --Milton.

3. To preclude; to exclude; to bar out. ``Shut from every
   shore.'' --Dryden.

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.

{To shut in}.
   (a) To inclose; to confine. ``The Lord shut him in.''
       --Cen. vii. 16.
   (b) To cover or intercept the view of; as, one point shuts
       in another.

{To shut off}.
   (a) To exclude.
   (b) To prevent the passage of, as steam through a pipe, or
       water through a flume, by closing a cock, valve, or
       gate.

{To shut out}, to preclude from entering; to deny admission
   to; to exclude; as, to shut out rain by a tight roof.

{To shut together}, to unite; to close, especially to close
   by welding.

{To shut up}.
   (a) To close; to make fast the entrances into; as, to shut
       up a house.
   (b) To obstruct. ``Dangerous rocks shut up the passage.''
       --Sir W. Raleigh.
   (c) To inclose; to confine; to imprison; to fasten in; as,
       to shut up a prisoner.

             Before faith came, we were kept under the law,
             shut up unto the faith which should afterwards
             be revealed.                      --Gal. iii.
                                               23.
   (d) To end; to terminate; to conclude.

             When the scene of life is shut up, the slave
             will be above his master if he has acted better.
                                               --Collier.
   (e) To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding.
   (f) To cause to become silent by authority, argument, or
       force.

\Shut\, v. i.
To close itself; to become closed; as, the door shuts; it
shuts hard.

{To shut up}, to cease speaking. [Colloq.] --T. Hughes.

\Shut\, a.
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.] --L'Estrange.

3. (Phon.)
   (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.
       --H. Sweet.
   (b) Cut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant
       in the same syllable, as the English short vowels,
       [a^], [e^], [i^], [o^], [u^], always are.

\Shut\, n.
The act or time of shutting; close; as, the shut of a door.

      Just then returned at shut of evening flowers.
                                               --Milton.

2. A door or cover; a shutter. [Obs.] --Sir I. Newton.

3. The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by
   welding.

{Cold shut}, the imperfection in a casting caused by the
   flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal;
   also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the
   inadequate heat of one surface under working.