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Close
CLOSE, v.t.
1. To shut; to make fast, by pressing together, or by stopping an open place, so as to intercept a passage, in almost any manner; as, to close the eyes; to close a gate, door or window. In these and other cases, closing is performed by bringing an object before the opening. To close a book, is to bring the parts together.
The Lord hath closed your eyes. Isa 29.
He closed the book. Luke 4.
2. To end; to finish; to conclude; to complete; to bring to a period; as, to close a bargain, or contract.
One frugal supper did our studies close.
3. To unite, as the parts of a breach or fracture; to make whole; to consolidate; often followed by up.
The Lord closed up the flesh instead thereof. Gen 2.
4. To cover; to inclose; to encompass; to overwhelm.
The depths closed me round about. Jonah 2.
5. To inclose; to confine. [See Inclose.]
6. To move or bring together; to unite separate bodies or parts; as, to close the ranks of an army.
CLOSE, v.i. s as z.
1. To unite; to coalesce; to come together; as the parts of a wound or fracture, or parts separated; often followed by on or upon.
The fat closed upon the blade. Judg 3.
The earth closed upon them. Num 16.
2. To end; to terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six oclock.
To close on or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in.
France and Holland might close upon some measures to our disadvantage.
To close with, to accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. When followed by the person with whom an agreement is made, to make an agreement with; to unite with; as, to close with an enemy.
He took the time when Richard was deposed,
And high and low with happy Harry closed.
In this sense, to close in with is less elegant.
To close with,
To close in with, To unite; to join closely; to grapple, as persons in a contest; applied to wrestlers, when they come to close embrace for scuffling.
CLOSE, a.
1. Shut fast; tight; made fast, so as to have no opening; as a close box; a close vizard.
2. Having parts firmly united; compact; dense; applied to solid substances of any king; as the close texture of wood or metal.
3. Having parts firmly adhering; viscous; tenacious; as oil, or glue.
4. Confined; stagnant; without ventilation or motion; as close air.
5. Confined; retired.
While David kept himself close. 1 Chr 12.
6. Hid; private; secret; as, to keep a purpose close. Num 5. Luke 9.
7. Confined within narrow limits; narrow; as a close alley.
8. Near; within a small distance; as a close fight or action.
9. Joined; in contact or nearly so; crowded; as, to sit close.
10. Compressed, as thoughts or words; hence, brief; concise; opposed to loose or diffuse.
Where the original is close, no version can reach it in the same compass.
11. Very near, in place or time; adjoining, or nearly so.
I saw him come close to the ram. Dan 8.
They sailed close by Crete. Acts 27.
Some dire misfortune follows close behind.
12. Having the quality of keeping secrets, thoughts or designs; cautious; as a close minister. Hence in friendship, trusty; confidential
13. Having an appearance of concealment; implying art, craft or wariness; as a close aspect.
14. Intent; fixed; attentive; pressing upon the object; as, to give close attention.
Keep your mind or thoughts close to the business or subject.
15. Full to the point; home; pressing; as a close argument; bring the argument close to the question.
16. Pressing; earnest; warm; as a close debate.
17. Confined; secluded from communication; as a close prisoner.
18. Covetous; penurious; not liberal; as a close man.
19. Applied to the weather or air, close, in popular language, denotes warm and damp, cloudy or foggy, or warm and relaxing, occasioning a sense of lassitude and depression. Perhaps originally, confined air.
20. Strictly adhering to the original; as a close translation.
21. In heraldry, drawn in a coat of arms with the wings close, and in a standing posture.
Close communion, with baptists, communion in the Lords supper with their own sect only.
Close election, an election in which the votes for different candidates are nearly equal.
CLOSE, adv. Closely; nearly; densely; secretly; pressingly.
Behind her death close followed, pace for pace.
close appears in definitions for these words:
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Accuracy Accurate Accurately Achieve Act Adjacency Adjacent Adjournment Adnate Adscititious Affect Affix Alee All Alphonsin Angelites Anticlimax Aplome Apocalypse Application Apprest Arachnoid Ark Arminian Assiduity Assiduous Astricting Astriction Athanor Attachment Bake Baking Bamboo Bark-bound Be Bear Bee-flower Belay Bellows Bend Bending Board Bonnet Bookworm Bosom Bow Bowline Box Brace Braced Brail Breeches Brevet Brother Buckle Bung Buoy By C Cabal Caballer Cabinet Caboshed Cadency Calypter Camphor-tree Canvass Carronade Cask Cassock Cat-harpings Catacomb Cell Cement Cementation Cementing Cespitous Chapelling Cheek Clan Clanish Clanishness Clasp Clause Cleave Climax Clinch Clinched Clinching Cling Clinging Clip Cloister Cloom Close Close-banded Close-bodied Close-hauled Close-pent Closely Closeness Closer Closest Closet Closeted Closure Clout Cluster Clustering Coach Coal Coarct Cobalt Cockshut Coffee Collapse Collapsed Collapsion Collar Combine Combined Combining Come Compact Compacted Compactedness Compacting Compactly Compactness Compacture Complin Comprehension Compression Conceal Concealable Concealed Concealing Concealment Concentrate Concentrated Concentrating Conclave Conclude Concludent Conclusion Condensable Condensate Condensation Condense Condensed Confer Confine Confined Conglomerate Congregate Conjoin Conjunctive Connect Connive Connivent Consider Consociate Constipation Constrictor Contact Context Contiguousness Continuate Continuity Coop Couch Couched Couching Covertly Creeping Croft Crop Crouch Crowth Cuddle Cunner Cursory Curtain Dark Decline Deep-musing Dense Density Depth Desinence Dessert Dirt Disband Disclose Dit Diving-bell Divorce Dog Dogged Door Draw Drawer Drawn Drum Dungeon Dunning Ear Ease Edge Embar Enclitic End Engrapple Ensear Epiphonem Erect Espalier Even Even-song Evening Eventuate Everopen Exact Expiration Expire Exploration Explorator Explore Explored Fadge Failure Fall Familiar Family Fast Fast-handed Fasten Fastness Fay Finance Firm Firmly Firmness Fish Fit Flesh Fold Folding Follow For Fruit-grove Fullingmill Funnel Furl Furnish G Galangal Gale Galloon Garth Gate Good Grapnel Grapplement Gripe Grove Grow Half-sword Hand Hang Hard Hard-besetting Hardfisted Hardness Headmold-shot Heel Hermetic Hermetically Hermogenians Hibernate Hibernation Hidebound Hiding Hive Home Honey-comb Hug Hunt Hurdle Hyphen Impact Impacted Impendent Imporosity Imporous Impound In Indecisive Indent Inspect Inspection Instop Intense Intenseness Intensity Intent Intention Intentive Intentively Intentiveness Intently Intentness Interstice Intimacy Intimate Intimately Intrinsic Issue Jacket Jerkin Join Jole Juppon Just K Knit Knot Koba L Lantern Latch Late Laxity Leaky Lee Leeway Liberal Link Lip Listen Literally Lobate Lock Locked Locker Loke Look Loose Luff Lurch Luted Luting Magazine Marry Martinet Me Meditation Metaphrastic Mew Mohair-shell Muffle Muffled Muffling Muggy Mumble Mummy Muse Museful Muser Mute Muzzle Myrtle Nail Narrow Narrowly Near Nearly Nearness Neck Neither Nest Nestle Niggard Nigh Night Nightfall Noose O Observingly Obstruct Obstruction Occlude Occluse Offer On Open Oratory Osmium Overgird Overlay Overt P Pack Packing Pan Panicle Pantaloon Pantry Paracelsian Parsimonious Parsimony Pause Pawl Peep Pent Perdu Periwig Personate Phalanx Pinch Pingle Pith Pithily Plane-tree Plodding Plump Ply Plying Point Poll Portlast Pose Posed Poser Posing Pray Press Pressingly Prosecute Pry Prying Pryingly Pucker Puddle Pugil Pugilism Purprise Pursenet Pycnostyle Querpo Reasoner Recess Reclose Reclosed Reef-tackle Reflect Relative Relax Relaxed Remission Remissly Reservedness Rinse Rise Rompu Ruck Run Sad Safely Sail Sandstone Satin Scrape Scrimp Scrutator Scrutinize Scrutinized Scrutinous Scrutiny Scuffle Scuffling Sculk Sculker Sculking Seal Sealed Sear Searching Secrecy Sedulous Seel Selvedge Semi-vowel Seps Sericeous Session Set Settle Seventieth Severe Shade Sharp Shatter Shave Shaver Shear Sheet Short Shut Shutter Sister Skulk Sluice Smack Smother Snudge Snug Snuggle Snugly Snugness Solid Soundly Spar Spectrum Spiss Spring Springe Spy Squat Squatter Squeeze Stab Stablestand Stagnate Stalk Stanch Stanchness Stare Stenographer Stick Stifle Stingy Stipular Stive Stop Stopped Stopper Stoppered Stopple Straight Straighten Straightly Strain Strait Straitly Stretch Strict Strictly Strictness Student Studied Studiously Study Stuff Sultriness Sultry Sum Suppressing Sworn Synarthrosis T Tacit Tack Take Tar Tegular Tenacious Tenor Terminate Testudo Teutonic Texture Thick Thicken Thickened Thickening Thicket Thickly Thickness Thickset Thicksprung Thin Thinker Throat Throng Thunder Thyrse Tigh Tight Tighten Tighter Tightly Tightness Tomentous Tortoise Touch Trapanning Trespass Trim Trimness Truss Trussed Trussing Tuck Tunic Twine Twining U Unattached Unclench Unclosed Unclutch Uncompact Unfold Unity Unopened Unsecret Unsound Urge V Valve Vapor-bath Varnish Velvet Ventilator Vest Vested Vesting Vise W Wad Wafer Wale-knot Wall-knot Watch Weave Wed Wedded Wedge Wedged Wedging Whiffle Whist Wink Winkingly With Wood-lock Work Xebec Y Zeta
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