a.
From a close bower this dainty music flowed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, . . . and the other maketh it exceeding unequal. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
“Her close intent.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Plant the spring crocuses close to a wall. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]
The thought of the Man of sorrows seemed a very close thing -- not a faint hearsay. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
League with you I seek
And mutual amity, so strait, so close,
That I with you must dwell, or you with me. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Close borough.
Close breeding.
Close communion,
Close corporation,
Close fertilization. (Bot.)
Close harmony (Mus.),
Close time,
Close vowel (Pron.),
Close to the wind (Naut.),
n.
The doors of plank were; their close exquisite. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]
His long and troubled life was drawing to a close. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
At every close she made, the attending throng
Replied, and bore the burden of the song. Dryden.
adv.
A wondrous vision which did close imply
The course of all her fortune and posterity. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. & F. clos an inclosure, fr. clos, p. p. of clore. See Close, v. t. ]
Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]
To close on
To close upon
To close with.
To close with the land (Naut.),
v. t.
One frugal supper did our studies close. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
The depth closed me round about. Jonah ii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]
But now thou dost thyself immure and close
In some one corner of a feeble heart. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]
A closed sea,
a. Closely united. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Firmly barred or closed. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj.