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

Locke.

8. Concise; to the point; as,
close reasoning. "Where the original is close
no version can reach it in the same compass." Dryden.

9. Adjoining; near; either in space;
time, or thought; -- often followed by to.

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.

10. Short; as, to cut grass or hair
close.

11. Intimate; familiar;
confidential.

League with you I seek

And mutual amity, so strait, so close,

That I with you must dwell, or you with me.

Milton.

12. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced;
as, a close vote. "A close contest."
Prescott.

13. Difficult to obtain; as, money is
close. Bartlett.

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