Definition of open

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Open (a.) Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed..

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Openwork :: Openwork (n.) A quarry; an open cut.
Divide :: Divide (v. i.) To be separated; to part; to open; to go asunder.
Gap :: Gap (n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass..
Obturator :: Obturator (n.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate..
Airless :: Airless (a.) Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air..
Kipper :: Kipper (n.) A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh..
Lacuna :: Lacuna (n.) A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane..
Mesembryanthemum :: Mesembryanthemum (n.) A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f/eshy. The flowers usually open about midday, whence the name..
Gambit :: Gambit (n.) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position..
Explicit :: Explicit (a.) Not implied merely, or conveyed by implication; distinctly stated; plain in language; open to the understanding; clear; not obscure or ambiguous; express; unequivocal; as, an explicit declaration..
Seam :: Seam (v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open.
Hatchway :: Hatchway (n.) A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar..
Well :: Well (v. i.) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole..
Blastopore :: Blastopore (n.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron..
Foraminated :: Foraminated (a.) Having small opening, or foramina..
Vestibulum :: Vestibulum (n.) A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open..
Lap :: Lap (n.) The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below)..
Socket :: Socket (n.) An opening into which anything is fitted; any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as, the sockets of the teeth..
Uncoil :: Uncoil (v. t.) To unwind or open, as a coil of rope..
Private :: Private (a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding..
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