2. To make into a closet for a secret interview.

He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.

Bancroft.

He had been closeted with De Quadra.

Froude.

Close"-tongued` (&?;), a. Closemouthed; silent. "Close-tongued treason." Shak.

Closh (?), n. [CF. F. clocher to limp, halt.] A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis. Crabb.

Closh, n. [CF. D. klossen to play at bowls.] The game of ninepins. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Clo"sure (?, 135), n. [Of. closure, L. clausura, fr. clauedere to shut. See Close, v. t.] 1. The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

2. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.

Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.

Pope.

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