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What's The Definition Of 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. {French window} (Arch.), a casement window in two folds, usually reaching to the floor; -- called also {French casement}. {Window back} (Arch.), the inside face of the low, and usually thin, piece of wall between the window sill and the floor below. {Window blind}, a blind or shade for a window. {Window bole}, part of a window closed by a shutter which can be opened at will. [Scot.] {Window box}, one of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash. {Window frame}, the frame of a window which receives and holds the sashes or casement. {Window glass}, panes of glass for windows; the kind of glass used in windows. {Window martin} (Zo["o]l.), the common European martin. [Prov. Eng.] {Window oyster} (Zo["o]l.), a marine bivalve shell ({Placuna placenta}) native of the East Indies and China. Its valves are very broad, thin, and translucent, and are said to have been used formerly in place of glass. {Window pane}. (a) (Arch.) See {Pane}, n., 3 (b) . (b) (Zo["o]l.) See {Windowpane}, in the Vocabulary. {Window sash}, the sash, or light frame, in which panes of glass are set for windows. {Window seat}, a seat arranged in the recess of a window. See {Window stool}, under {Stool}. {Window shade}, a shade or blind for a window; usually, one that is hung on a roller. {Window shell} (Zo["o]l.), the window oyster. {Window shutter}, a shutter or blind used to close or darken windows. {Window sill} (Arch.), the flat piece of wood, stone, or the like, at the bottom of a window frame. {Window swallow} (Zo["o]l.), the common European martin. [Prov. Eng.] {Window tax}, a tax or duty formerly levied on all windows, or openings for light, above the number of eight in houses standing in cities or towns. [Eng.]
\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.