A wondrous vision which did close imply
The course of all her fortune and posterity.
Spenser.
Close"-band`ed (?), a. Closely united.
Close"-barred` (?), a. Firmly barred or closed.
Close"-bod`ied (?), a. Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
Close"-fights` (?), n. pl. (Naut.) 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 close quarters. [Obs.]
Close"fist`ed (?), a. Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
Close"hand`ed (?), a. Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
Close"hauled` (?), a. (Naut.) Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
Close"ly, adv. 1. In a close manner.