Definition of window

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Window (n.) 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..

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Cancelli :: Cancelli (v. t.) An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the bar of a court of justice, between the chancel and the nave of a church, or in a window..
Windowing :: Windowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Windo.
Crossette :: Crossette (n.) A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow..
Orb :: Orb (n.) A blank window or panel.
Splayfeet :: Splay (a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them..
Blind :: Blind (n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
Sash :: Sash (n.) The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes..
Fenestration :: Fenestration (n.) The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions..
Breastsummer :: Breastsummer (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows..
Fenes-tella :: Fenes-tella (n.) Any small windowlike opening or recess, esp. one to show the relics within an altar, or the like..
Looplight :: Looplight (n.) A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
Confessional :: Confessional (n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others..
Windowpane :: Windowpane (n.) See Pane, n., (3) b..
Hanging :: Hanging (n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural..
Thorough-lighted :: Thorough-lighted (a.) Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building..
Open :: Open (a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead..
Splay :: Splay (v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc..
Furniture :: Furniture (v. t.) Builders' hardware such as locks, door and window trimmings..
Curtain :: Curtain (n.) A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage..
Tatta :: Tatta (n.) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters..
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