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From a close bower this dainty music
flowed.

Dryden.

2. Narrow; confined; as, a close
alley; close quarters. "A close prison."
Dickens.

3. Oppressive; without motion or
ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude; -- said of the air,
weather, etc.

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.

4. Strictly confined; carefully quarded;
as, a close prisoner.

5. Out of the way observation; secluded;
secret; hidden. "He yet kept himself close because
of Saul." 1 Chron. xii. 1

"Her close intent."

Spenser.

6. Disposed to keep secrets; secretive;
reticent. "For secrecy, no lady closer."
Shak.

7. Having the parts near each other;
dense; solid; compact; as applied to bodies; viscous; tenacious;
not volatile, as applied to liquids.


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