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.
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