Part 2018

<hw>Close"-band`ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Closely united.</def>

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

<hw>Close"-barred`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Firmly barred or closed.</def>

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

<hw>Close"-bod`ied</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.</def>

<i>Ayliffe.</i>

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

<hw>Close"-fights`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also <altname>close quarters</altname>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Closefisted</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Close"fist`ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Covetous; niggardly.</def>

<i>Bp. Berkeley.</i>

"<b>Closefisted</b> contractors." <i>Hawthorne.</i>

<h1>Closehanded</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Close"hand`ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Close"hand`ed*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Closehauled</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Close"hauled`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.</def>

<h1>Closely</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Close"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In a close manner.</def>

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

<blockquote>That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe Her dainty couch with tears which <b>closely</b> she did weepe. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Closemouthed</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Close"mouthed`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.</def>

<h1>Closen</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Clos"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To make close.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Closeness</h1> <Xpage=265>

<hw>Close"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being close.</def>

<blockquote>Half stifled by the <b>closeness</b> of the room. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or <b>closeness</b> of Tiberius. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>