Hypertext Webster Gateway: "window"

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)

Window
properly only an opening in a house for the admission of light
and air, covered with lattice-work, which might be opened or
closed (2 Kings 1:2; Acts 20:9). The spies in Jericho and Paul
at Damascus were let down from the windows of houses abutting on
the town wall (Josh. 2:15; 2 Cor. 11:33). The clouds are
metaphorically called the "windows of heaven" (Gen. 7:11; Mal.
3:10). The word thus rendered in Isa. 54:12 ought rather to be
rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or
as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays
of the sun"= having a radiated appearance like the sun.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Window \Win"dow\, n. [OE. windowe, windoge, Icel. vindauga
window, properly, wind eye; akin to Dan. vindue. ????. See
{Wind}, n., and {Eye}.]
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. (Arch.) The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or
other framework, which closes a window opening.

3. A figure formed of lines crossing each other. [R.]

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

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Window \Win"dow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Windowed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Windowing}.]
1. To furnish with windows.

2. 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

window
n 1: a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass
windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit
light or air
2: a transparent opening in a vehicle that allow vision out of
the sides or back; usually is capable of being opened
3: a transparent panel (as of an envelope) inserted in an
otherwise opaque material
4: an opening that resembles a window in appearance or
function; "he could see them through a window in the
trees"
5: a pane in a window; "the ball shattered the window" [syn: {windowpane}]
6: an opening in the wall of a building (usually to admit light
and air); "he stuck his head in the window"
7: (computer science) a rectangular part of a computer screen
that contains a display different from the rest of the
screen


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