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13. A mere child in argument, and unable to foresee that the next "move" (to use a Platonic expre ion) will " shut him up." Jowett, tr. of Plato's Dialogues, III. 8. (c) To unite, as two pieces of metal by welding. - To shut up shop. See shop1. II. in trans. 1. To be a means of bolting, locking, or closing. Two ma y keys he bore of metals twain; The golden opes, the iron shuts amain. Milton , Lycidas, 1. 111. struct; block: sometimes followed by up . Shet was every wyndow of the place. Chaucer , Troilus, v. 534. When the other way by the Narve was quite shutt upp, they should a ure themselves neither to have the English nor any other March ant to trade that way to the Port of St. Nicholas. G. Fletcher (Ellis's Literary Letters, p. 83). Third Watch. 'Tis to be doubted he would waken him. First Watch . Unle our halberds did shut up his pa age. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iv. 3. 20. of itself; certain flowers shut at night and open in the day. A gulf that ever shuts and gapes.