Category:Opening

O"pen*ing, n.

1. The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first Appearance; as, the opening of a speech. The opening of your glory was like that of light. Dryden.

2. A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or Hole. We saw him at the opening of his tent. Shak.

3. Hence: a vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for Business. [colloq.] Dickens.

4. A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a Forest; as, oak openings. [u.s.] Cooper.