One frugal supper did our studies close.
Dryden.

The depth closed me round about.
Jonah ii. 5.

But now thou dost thyself immure and close
In some one corner of a feeble heart.
Herbert.

A closed sea, a sea within the jurisdiction of some particular nation, which controls its navigation.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
Byron.

They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest.
Prescott.

To close on or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. "Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage." Sir W. Temple. -- To close with. (a) To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. (b) To make an agreement with. -- To close with the land (Naut.), to approach the land.

The doors of plank were; their close exquisite.
Chapman.

His long and troubled life was drawing to a close.
Macaulay.

Closes surrounded by the venerable abodes of deans and canons.
Macaulay.

From a close bower this dainty music flowed.
Dryden.

If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, . . . and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.
Bacon.

"Her close intent."
Spenser.

The golden globe being put into a press, . . . the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.
Locke.

Plant the spring crocuses close to a wall.
Mortimer.

The thought of the Man of sorrows seemed a very close thing -- not a faint hearsay.
G. Eliot.

League with you I seek
And mutual amity, so strait, so close,
That I with you must dwell, or you with me.
Milton.

Close borough. See under Borough. -- Close breeding. See under Breeding. -- Close communion, communion in the Lord's supper, restricted to those who have received baptism by immersion. -- Close corporation, a body or corporation which fills its own vacancies. -- Close fertilization. (Bot.) See Fertilization. -- Close harmony (Mus.), compact harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not widely distributed over several octaves. -- Close time, a fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law. -- Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth. -- Close to the wind (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; -- said of a vessel.

A wondrous vision which did close imply
The course of all her fortune and posterity.
Spenser.