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Webster 1913 Edition


Unshut

Un-shut′

,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
shut
.]
To open, or throw open.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unshut

UNSHUT'

,
Adj.
Not shut; open; unclosed.

Definition 2024


unshut

unshut

English

Verb

unshut (third-person singular simple present unshuts, present participle unshutting, simple past and past participle unshut)

  1. (now rare) To open (a door, window etc.).
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter iij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI:
      ANd anone as he had vnshet the wyndowe the enchaūtement was gone / thēne he knewe hym self that he had done amys / Allas he sayd that I haue lyued so long now I am shamed / Soo thenne he gat his swerd in his hand and said thow traitresse what arte thow that I haue layn by alle this nyghte / thow shalt dye ryghte here of my handes