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2. To bring together the parts of; to
consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often
used with up.

3. To bring to an end or period; to
conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; as, to
close a bargain; to close a course of
instruction.

One frugal supper did our studies
close.

Dryden.

4. To come or gather around; to inclose;
to encompass; to confine.

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.

Close, v. i. 1.
To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a
wound, or parts separated.

What deep wounds ever closed without a
scar?

Byron.


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