Part 2015

<h1>Clong</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clong</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <def><tt>imp.</tt> of <er>Cling</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Clonic</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clon"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ a violent, confused motion; cf. F. <ets>clonique</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Having an irregular, convulsive motion.</def>

<i>Dunglison.</i>

<cs><col>Clonic spasm</col>. <fld>(Med.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Spasm</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cloom</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cloom</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[A variant of <ets>clam</ets> to clog.]</ety> <def>To close with glutinous matter.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Mortimer.</i>

<h1>Cloop</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Cloop</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[An onomatop\'d2ia.]</ety> <def>The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle.</def> "The <i>cloop</i> of a cork wrenched from a bottle."

<i>Thackeray.</i>

<h1>Close</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Close</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Closed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Closing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[From OF. & F. <ets>clos</ets>, p. p. of <ets>clore</ets> to close, fr. L. <ets>claudere</ets>; akin to G. <ets>schliessen</ets> to shut, and to E. <ets>clot</ets>, <ets>cloister</ets>, <ets>clavicle</ets>, <ets>conclude</ets>, <ets>sluice</ets>. Cf. <er>Clause</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; <as>as, to <ex>close</ex> the eyes; to <ex>close</ex> a door.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; <as>as, to <ex>close</ex> the ranks of an army; -- often used with <ex>up</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; <as>as, to <ex>close</ex> a bargain; to <ex>close</ex> a course of instruction.</as></def>

<blockquote>One frugal supper did our studies <b>close</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To come or gather around; to inclose; to encompass; to confine.</def>

<blockquote>The depth <b>closed</b> me round about. <i>Jonah ii. 5.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>But now thou dost thyself immure and <b>close</b> In some one corner of a feeble heart. <i>Herbert.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>A closed sea</col>, <cd>a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.</cd></cs>

<h1>Close</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Close</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated.</def>

<blockquote>What deep wounds ever <b>closed</b> without a scar? <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To end, terminate, or come to a period; <as>as, the debate <ex>closed</ex> at six o'clock</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To grapple; to engange in hand-to-hand fight.</def>

<blockquote>They boldly <b>closed</b> in a hand-to-hand contest. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>To close on</col> <it>or</it> <col>upon</col></mcol>, <cd>to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. "Would induce France and Holland to <i>close upon<i> some measures between them to our disadvantage." <i>Sir W. Temple</i>.</cd> -- <col>To close with</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to <i>close with<i> the terms proposed.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To make an agreement with.</cd> -- <col>To close with the land</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to approach the land.</cd></cs>