Part 2017

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Disposed to keep secrets; secretive; reticent.</def> "For servecy, no lady <i>closer</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Having the parts near each other; dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious; not volatile, as applied to liquids.</def>

<blockquote>The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very <b>close</b> metal. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Concise; to the point; <as>as, <ex>close</ex> reasoning</as>.</def> "Where the original is <i>close</i> no version can reach it in the same compass."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; -- often followed by <i>to</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Plant the spring crocuses <b>close</b> to a wall. <i>Mortimer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The thought of the Man of sorrows seemed a very <b>close</b> thing -- not a faint hearsay. <i>G. Eliot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>Short; <as>as, to cut grass or hair <ex>close</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>11.</b> <def>Intimate; familiar; confidential.</def>

<blockquote>League with you I seek And mutual amity, so strait, so <b>close</b>, That I with you must dwell, or you with me. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>12.</b> <def>Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced; <as>as, a <ex>close</ex> vote</as>.</def> "A <i>close</i> contest."

<i>Prescott.</i>

<p><b>13.</b> <def>Difficult to obtain; <as>as, money is <ex>close</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Bartlett.</i>

<p><b>14.</b> <def>Parsimonious; stingy.</def> "A crusty old fellow, as <i>close</i> as a vise."

<i>Hawthorne.</i>

<p><b>15.</b> <def>Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact; strict; <as>as, a <ex>close</ex> translation</as>.</def>

<i>Locke.</i>

<p><b>16.</b> <def>Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict; not wandering; <as>as, a <ex>close</ex> observer</as>.</def>

<p><b>17.</b> <fld>(Phon.)</fld> <def>Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of <i>e</i> and <i>o</i> in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to <i>open</i>.</def>

<cs><col>Close borough</col>. <cd>See under <er>Borough</er>.</cd> -- <col>Close breeding</col>. <cd>See under <er>Breeding</er>.</cd> -- <col>Close communion</col>, <cd>communion in the Lord's supper, restricted to those who have received baptism by immersion.</cd> -- <col>Close corporation</col>, <cd>a body or corporation which fills its own vacancies.</cd> -- <col>Close fertilization</col>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Fertilization</er>.</cd> -- <col>Close harmony</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>compact harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not widely distributed over several octaves.</cd> -- <col>Close time</col>, <cd>a fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law.</cd> -- <col>Close vowel</col> <fld>(Pron.)</fld>, <cd>a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth.</cd> -- <col>Close to the wind</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; -- said of a vessel.</cd></cs>

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

<hw>Close</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In a close manner.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Secretly; darkly.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A wondrous vision which did <b>close</b> imply The course of all her fortune and posterity. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

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