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Tight :: Tight (superl.) Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water-tight; air-tight..

Operculated :: Operculated (a.) Closed by a lid or cover, as the capsules of the mosses..

Scrutiny :: Scrutiny (n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.

Pingle :: Pingle (n.) A small piece of inclosed ground.

Perclose :: Perclose (n.) Same as Parclose.

Room :: Room (n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber..

Boil :: Boil (n.) A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core..

Canister :: Canister (n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot..

Shave :: Shave (v. i.) To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat..

Deads :: Deads (n. pl.) The substances which inclose the ore on every side.

Several :: Several (n.) An inclosed or separate place; inclosure.

Intestine :: Intestine (a.) Shut up; inclosed.

Intimate :: Intimate (a.) Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend..

Divorce :: Divorce (n.) Separation; disunion of things closely united.

Encysted :: Encysted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor..

Noon-flower :: Noon-flower (n.) The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal..

Parity :: Parity (n.) The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning..

Hard-fisted :: Hard-fisted (a.) Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.

Sarcolemma :: Sarcolemma (n.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.

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