Definition of close

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Close (v. t.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open..

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Conglutinant :: Conglutinant (a.) Cementing together; uniting closely; causing to adhere; promoting healing, as of a wound or a broken bone, by adhesion of the parts..
Reserve :: Reserve (v. t.) To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose..
Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound..
Kinsfolk :: Kinsfolk (n.) Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families.
Crebrisulcate :: Crebrisulcate (a.) Marked with closely set transverse furrows.
Descry :: Descry (v. t.) To discover; to disclose; to reveal.
Iron-fisted :: Iron-fisted (a.) Closefisted; stingy; mean.
In :: In (v. t.) To inclose; to take in; to harvest.
Card :: Card (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back..
Occludent :: Occludent (n.) That which closes or shuts up.
Templed :: Templed (a.) Supplied with a temple or temples, or with churches; inclosed in a temple..
Reservation :: Reservation (n.) Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward..
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..
Dungeon :: Dungeon (n.) A close, dark prison, common/, under ground, as if the lower apartments of the donjon or keep of a castle, these being used as prisons..
Incastellated :: Incastellated (a.) Confined or inclosed in a castle.
Torpedo :: Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore..
Snug :: Snug (v. i.) To lie close; to snuggle; to snudge; -- often with up, or together; as, a child snugs up to its mother..
Parenthesis :: Parenthesis (n.) A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes..
Fasten :: Fasten (a.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow..
Joust :: Joust (v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.
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