Milton, P

L., iii. 333. She... shut the chamber up , close, hush'd, and still. Keats , Lamia, ii. 5. To bring together the parts of. (a) To bring together the outer parts or covering of, as when inclosing something: as, to shut the eyelids, or, as more commonly expre ed, to shut the eyes (hence, also, to shut the sight). He hedde thet mestier [craft] uor to ette the porses of the wrechchen thet hi ne olle by open to do elme e. Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 188. Therwith a you sand tymes, er he lette, He kiste tho the letre that he shette.