Door \Door\, n. [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura,
dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. th["u]r, thor,
Icel. dyrr, Dan. d["o]r, Sw. d["o]rr, Goth. daur, Lith.
durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. ?; cf. Skr.
dur, dv[=a]ra. [root]246. Cf. Foreign.]
1. An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by
which to go in and out; an entrance way.
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To the same end, men several paths may tread,
As many doors into one temple lead. --Denham.
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2. The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually
turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house
or apartment is closed and opened.
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At last he came unto an iron door
That fast was locked. --Spenser.
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3. Passage; means of approach or access.
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I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall
be saved. --John x. 9.
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4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or
apartment to which it leads.
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Martin's office is now the second door in the
street. --Arbuthnot.
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Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank,
Blind, etc.
In doors, or Within doors, within the house.
Next door to, near to; bordering on.
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A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.
--L'Estrange.
Out of doors, or Without doors, and, [colloquially], Out
doors, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost.
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His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors.
--Locke.
To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge
one with a fault; to blame for.
To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to.
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If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door.
--Dryden.
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Note: Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the
first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen),
as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or
doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door
handle, door mat, door panel.
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DOOR. The place of usual entrance in a house, or into a room in the house.
2. To authorize the breach of an outer door in order to serve process,
the process must be of a criminal nature; and even then a demand of
admittance must first have been refused. 5 Co. 93; 4 Leon. 41; T. Jones,
234; 1 N. H. Rep. 346; 10 John. 263; 1 Root, 83 , 134; 21 Pick. R. 156. The
outer door may also be broken open for the purpose of executing a writ of
habere facias. 5 Co. 93; Bac. Ab. Sheriff, N. 3.
3. An outer door cannot in general be broken for the purpose of serving
civil process; 13 Mass. 520; but after the defendant has been arrested, and
he takes refuge in his own house, the officer may justify breaking an outer
door to take him. Foster, 320; 1 Roll. R. 138; Cro. Jac. 555.; 10 Wend. 300;
6 Hill, N. Y. Rep. 597. When once an officer is in the house, he may break
open an inner door to make an arrest. Kirby, 386 5 John. 352; 17 John. 127,
See 1 Toull. n. 214, p. 88.
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