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a. Acting from behind and in concealment; backstairs; as, backdoor intrigues. [ 1913 Webster ]

A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. batyldour. A corrupted form of uncertain origin; cf. Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr. L. battalia; or cf. Pr. batedor batlet, fr. batre to beat, fr. L. batuere. See Battle, n. ] 1. An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock. [ Also spelled battledore. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ OE. battleder. ] A child's hornbook. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura, dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. thür, thor, Icel. dyrr, Dan. dör, Sw. dörr, Goth. daur, Lith. durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. &unr_;; cf. Skr. dur, dvāra. √246. Cf. Foreign. ] 1. An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the same end, men several paths may tread,
As many doors into one temple lead. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened. [ 1913 Webster ]

At last he came unto an iron door
That fast was locked. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Passage; means of approach or access. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. John x. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads. [ 1913 Webster ]

Martin's office is now the second door in the street. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blank door,
Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc. --
In doors, or
Within doors, within the house. --
Next door to, near to; bordering on. [ 1913 Webster ] A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. L'Estrange. --
Out of doors, or
Without doors, and, [ colloquially ],
Out doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost. [ 1913 Webster ] His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. Locke. --
To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge one with a fault; to blame for. --
To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to. [ 1913 Webster ] If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen), as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door handle, door mat, door panel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a bell or other sounding device, actuated by a push button at an outer door; the push button activating the bell; alos, the ringing of such a bell; as, I was in the shower and didn't hear the doorbell.
Syn. -- bell, buzzer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The surrounding frame into which a door shuts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The jamb or sidepiece of a door. Ex. xii. 22 (Douay version). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Skr. Durgā. ] (Myth.) A Hindoo divinity, the consort of Siva, represented with ten arms. [ Written also Durga. ] Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The frame of a door. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door, which may be swung by hand against the door to make a loud knocking sound.
Syn. -- knocker. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Without a door. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a lock on an exterior door. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. someone who guards the entrance to a building.
Syn. -- doorkeeper, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a mat placed outside and exterior door for wiping the shoes before entering. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- welcome mat. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (figurative) A person who is habitually abused, taken advantage of or humiliated; sometimes, one who is physically weak; as, they used him for a doormat. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- weakling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, “As dead as a doornail.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The jamb or sidepiece of a doorway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The sill or threshold of a door. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Entrance or place of a door. [ Obs. or Local ] Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The stone forming a threshold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Carp.) The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door; any object used to stop open doors from moving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as doorstop.
Syn. -- doorstop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. direct without intermediate changes of vehicle; -- of e.g. journeys or deliveries; as, the limousine offers direct door-to-door service. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. omitting no one; from the door of one house to that of the next; as, a door-to-door solicitation, canvass, or campaign.
Syn. -- house-to-house. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A yard in front of a house or around the door of a house.

a. Done or being within doors; within a house or institution; domestic; as, indoor work. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Within the house; -- sometimes separated, in doors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A door having louvers in place of a solid panel, in part or all of the surface of the door. [ PJC ]

. (a) Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

She of the open soul and open door,
With room about her hearth for all mankind. Lowell. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(b) In modern diplomacy, opportunity for political and commercial intercourse open to all upon equal terms, esp. with reference to a nation whose policy is wholly or partially fixed by nations foreign to itself, or to territory newly acquired by a conquering nation. In this sense, often used adjectively, as, open-door system, open-door policy, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The steps taken by Britain to maintain the open door have so far proved to be perfectly futile. A. R. Colquhoun. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ For out of door. ] Being, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Out of the house; out of doors; in the open air; abroad. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Being out of the house; being, or done, in the open air; suited for the open air; outdoor; as, out-of-door exercise. See Out of door, under Out, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

Amongst out-of-door delights. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. located, . indoor
Syn. -- outdoor(prenominal) (vs. indoor), outside. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Any location outside of any building, where the air is unconfined; the open air.
Syn. -- outdoors, air, open air, open. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Pandour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Arch.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trapdoor spider (Zool.), any one of several species of large spiders which make a nest consisting of a vertical hole in the earth, lined with a hinged lid, like a trapdoor. Most of the species belong to the genus Cteniza, as the California species (Cteniza Californica). [ 1913 Webster ]