Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: CLOSE'-HAND-ED – CLOT
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CLOSE'-HAND-ED, a.
Covetous; penurious. – Hale.
Covetousness. – Holyday.
CLOSE'-HAUL-ED, a.
In seamanship, having the tacks or lower corners of the sails drawn close to the side to windward, and the sheets hauled close aft, in sailing near the wind. – Encyc.
CLOSE'LY, adv.
- In a close, compact manner; with the parts united, or pressed together, so as leave no vent; as, a crucible closely luted.
- Nearly; with little space intervening; applied to space or time; as, to follow closely at one's heels; one event follows closely upon another.
- Intently; attentively; with the mind or thoughts fixed; with near inspection; as, to look or attend closely.
- Secretly; slily. [Not much used.] – Carew.
- With near affection, attachment or interest; intimately; as, men closely connected in friendship; nations closely allied by treaty.
- Strictly; within close limits; without communication abroad; as, a prisoner closely confined.
- With strict adherence to the original; as, to translate closely.
CLOSE-NESS, n.
- The state of being shut, pressed together, or united. Hence according to the nature of the thing to which the word is applied.
- Compactness; solidity; as, the closeness of texture in wood or fossils. – Bacon.
- Narrowness; straitness; as of a place.
- Tightness in building, or in apartments, firmness of texture in cloth, &c.
- Want of ventilation; applied to a close room, or to the air confined in it. – Swift.
- Confinement or retirement of a person; recluseness; solitude. – Shak.
- Reserve in intercourse; secrecy; privacy; caution. – Bacon.
- Covetousness; penuriousness. – Addison.
- Connection; near union; intimacy, whether of friendship, or of interest; as, the closeness of friendship, or of alliance.
- Pressure; urgency; variously applied; as, the closeness of an agreement, or of debate; the closeness of a question or inquiry.
- Adherence to an original; as, the closeness of a version.
CLOSE'-PENT, a.
Shut close. – Dryden.
CLOSE'-QUAR-TERS, n.
Strong barriers of wood used in a ship for defense when the ship is boarded. – Mar. Dict.
CLOS'ER, a. [comp. of Close.]
More close.
CLOS'ER, n. [s as z.]
A finisher; one who concludes.
CLOSE'-SHUT, a.
Shut closely.
CLOS'EST, a. [superl. of Close.]
Most close. In these words, s has its proper sound.
CLOSE'-STOOL, n.
A chamber utensil for the convenience of the sick and infirm.
CLOS'ET, n. [s as z.]
- A small room or apartment for retirement; any room for privacy. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. – Matth. vi.
- An apartment for curiosities or valuable things. – Dryden.
- A small close apartment or recess in the side of a room for repositing utensils and furniture.
CLOS'ET, v.t. [s as z.]
To shut up in a closet; to conceal; to take into a private apartment for consultation. – Herbert. Swift.
CLOS'ET-ED, pp. [s as z.]
Shut up in a closet; concealed.
CLOS'ET-ING, ppr. [s as z.]
Shutting up in a private room; concealing.
CLOSE'-TONGUED, a.
Keeping silence; cautious in speaking. – Shak.
CLOS'ET-SIN, n. [cloz'et-sin.]
Sin committed in privacy. – Bp. Hall.
CLOSH, n.
A disease in the feet of cattle, called also the founder. – Bailey.
CLOS'ING, a. [s as z.]
That ends or concludes; as, a closing word or letter.
CLOS'ING, n. [s as z.]
End; period; conclusion.
CLOS'ING, ppr. [s as z.]
Shutting; coalescing; agreeing; ending.
CLOS'URE, n. [clo'zhur.]
- The act of shutting; a closing. – Boyle.
- That which closes, or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or made to adhere. – Pope.
- Inclosure; that which confines. – Shak.
- Conclusion. – Shak.
CLOT, n. [See Clod.]
A concretion, particularly of soft or fluid matter, which concretes into a mass or lump; as, a clot of blood. Clod and clot appear to be radically the same word; but we usually apply clod to a hard mass of earth, and clot to a mass of softer substances, or fluids concreted.
CLOT, v.i.
- To concrete; to coagulate, as soft or fluid matter into a thick, inspissated mass; as, milk or blood clots.
- To form into clots or clods; to adhere; as, clotted glebe. – Philips.