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Window

Wind'ow, n.

noun

n. [Dan. vindue, Sw. vindöga, Icel. vindauga, window, properly wind-eye; O. Eng. windore, windor, i. e., wind-door.] 1. An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by doors or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure. A window shalt thou make to the ark. Gen. vi. 16. I leaped from the window of the citadel. Shak. Then to come, in spite of sorrow. And at my window bid good morrow. Milton.

  1. The door or sash that closes or covers the aperture or opening.
  2. A lattice or casement. Simmonds.
  3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. [Rare.]

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

An ornate Elizabethan window with decorative stonework, tall mullioned panes, and a carved flourish below.
Elizabethan Window.

Win'dow, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. WINDOWED; p. pr. & vb. n. WINDOWING.]

Sense 1. To furnish with windows.

Sense 2. To place at a window. [Rare.]

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

Sense 3. To break into openings; to tear into holes.

“Looped and windowed raggedness.” Shak.