door, dor, dore, dur, dure, durre

[A. S. duru, cogn. with Dut. deur; Dan. dor; Sw. dörr; Icel. dyrr; Goth. daur: O. H. Ger. thor, thür: Lat. (pl.) fores; Gr. thura; Sansc. dvára, dvár. ( Skeat.)] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) An opening in a wall for a pa age-way; the means of entrance into a building, room, or pa age. "Some to hors ran in haste, Doors and windows barred fast." IMG:content-0377.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0378.png:[blocks in formation] II. Carp .: A wooden or metal, or partly wood and partly metal frame, constructed so as to open and shut on hinges and close the entrance to a building, room, . The doors of ancient Egypt and contemporary nations swung upon vertical pintles which projected from the top and bottom of the door into sockets in the lintel and threshold respectively. The commonest form of door had the pintle in the middle of the width, so that, as it opened, a way was afforded on each side of it for ingre or egre . The doors of the oracle of Solomon's Temple were of olive-wood, and were "a fifth part of the wall." As the width of the house was 20 cubits, the doorway was about 6% feet wide. The door was double. The outer door of the temple was of fir, and hung upon olive-wood posts. The doorway was about eight feet wide, and the double doors had each two leaves. In a six-panel door the rail next to the top rail is called the frieze-rail. A panel wider than its height is a lying-panel; if of equal height and width, a square panel; if its height be greater than its width, a standing panel. A double - door consists of two pairs of folding-doors, hung on the angles of the apertures and opening toward the reveals against which they are hung. Folding - doors are two doors hung on opposite corners of the aperture in the same plane, so that the styles meet in the center when closed. Double - margin doors are made in imitation of folding doors, the middle style being made double with an intervening bead. Sliding doors are an improvement on folding; they slip into grooves in the partition. A proper -ledged door is one made of boards placed side by side with battens called ledges at the back. With a diagonal piece at the back, in addition, it is said to be framed and ledged. ( Knight .) (1) In or within doors: Within or inside the house. "How now! rain within doors, and none abroad?" Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. II., iv. 5. *(2) Out of door , out of doors: (a) Lit .: Outside the house, abroad. "Jumping out of bed, and running out of doors." Farmer: Demoniacs of the New Testament , ch. ii., § 3. (b) Fig .: Quite or entirely sent away, dismi ed, or done away with. "His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors, and Cain is no prince over his brother."- Locke . (3) Next door to : Approaching closely to or bordering upon. "A seditious word leads to a broil, and a riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult." -L' Estrange. (4) To lie or be at one's door : To be imputable or chargeable to. "In any of which parts if I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door."-Dryden: Dufresnoy. (Pref.) (5) To be put to the door: To be ruined. (Scotch.) (6) To take the door on one's back : To pack off; to be gone. ( Scotch .) "Stop the mill, Sauners Paton, and come out, and tak the door on your back ."-R. Githaize , ii. 313.