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in the name of Jelling ! lie you-there. Shakefpeare. —Hid¬ 
den; fecret; not revealed. — A clofe intent at lalt to fhew 
me grace. Spenfer. —Having the quality of fecrely ; trufty ; 
, , Confiant you are, 
But yet a woman; and for fecrefy, 
No lady clofr. Shakefpeare. 
Having an appearance of concealment; cloudy ; fly : 
That clofe afpeft of his 
Does fhew the mood of a much-troubled bread. Shakefp. 
Without wandering ; without deviation ; attentive.—I 
difeovered no way to keep our thoughts clofe to their bu- 
finefs, but, by frequent attention, getting the habit of 
attention. Locke. —Full to the point; home.— I am en¬ 
gaging in a large difpute, where the arguments are not 
like to reach clofe on either fide. Dryden .— Retired; loii- 
tary.—He kept himfelf clofe becaufe of Saul. Cbro?iicles. — 
Secluded from communication ; as, a clofe prifoner.—Ap¬ 
plied to the weather, dark ; cloudy ; not clear. 
CLOSE, ados. It has the fame meanings with clofely , 
and is not always eafily diftinguifhed from the adje&ive. 
Nearly; denfely; fecretly : 
Behind her death 
Clofe following pace for pace. Milton. 
It is ufed fometimes adverbially by itfelf, but mofe fre¬ 
quently in compofition. 
“ A close mouth catches no flies.’’ That is, a man 
•who cannot lpeak for himfelf will feidom gain his point: 
and this is the cafe of many a deferving man, who by a 
falfe modedy is chained down below mediocrity all his 
life ; and, as an addition to his misfortune, has the mor¬ 
tification of feeing wortldefs knaves, who have nothing 
to recommend them but their impudence, flep in before 
him, and run away with his due. We fay likewiie, 
to the fame pur pofe : Dumb folks get no land : or,- Spare 
to fpeak,'and fpare to fpeed. The Lat. Amyclas filentiilm 
perdidit. The Germ, lay, Es flengt enim kehn gebrixtene tau- 
ben ins maul. Roalted pigeons will never fly into any 
man’s mouth. 
CLOSE-BANDED, adj. In clofe order ; thick ranged ; 
or fecretly leagued, which feems rather the meaning in 
this paflage : 
Nor in the houfe, which chamber ambufltes 
Clofe-banded, duril attack me. Milton. 
CLOSE-BODIED, adj. Made to fit the body exactly.— 
If any clergy (ball appear in any clofe-bodied coat, they (hall 
be fufpended. Ayliffe. 
CLOSE-HANDED,a//.C ovetous.--Galba was very _clofe- 
hand.ed-. I have notread much of his liberalities. Arbuthnot. 
CLOSE-HAULED, in navigation, the general arrange¬ 
ment or trim of a fhip’s fails when fhe endeavours to make 
a progrefs in the neared dire&ion poffible towards that 
point of the compafsfrom which the wind blows. In this 
manner of failing, the keel commonly makes an angle of 
fix points with the line of the wind ; but floops and fome 
other fmall veflels are laid to fail ahnoit a point nearer. 
See Navigation. 
CLOSE-PENT, adj. Shut clofe; without vent: 
Then in fome clofe-pent room, it crept along, 
And, fmould’ring as it went, in filence fed. Dryden. 
CLOSE ROLLS and Close Writs. Grants of lands, 
&c. from the crown, are contained in charters or letters 
patent, that is open letters, literal patentes , fo called becaufe 
they are not fealed up, but expofed to open view, with the 
great leal pendant at the bottom ; and are ufuailyaddrefl- 
ed by the king to ail his fubjects at large. Ancl therein 
they differ from other letters of the king, fealed all'o with 
his great feai, but directed to particular perfons, and for 
particular purpofes: which therefore, not being fit for 
public infpe&ibn, are clofed up and lealed on the outfide, 
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and are thereupon called writs clofe, liter/e claufa ; and 
are recorded in the clofe-rolls, in the, fame, manner as the 
others are in the patent-rolls, a Com. 3.06. 
CLO'SELY, adu. Without inlet or outlet—Put the 
mixture into a crucible clojcly luted. Boyle —Without 
much fpace intervening ; nearly.—Follow Fluelien clojcly 
at the heels. Shakefpeare. —Attentively : 
If we look more clofely , w e fliall find 
Moft have the feeds of judgment in their mind. Pope. 
Secretly; fitly,.—A Spaniard, riding on the bay, fentfome 
clofely into the village, in the dark of the night. Careav. 
—Without deviation.—I hope I have trail Hated clofjy. 
enough, and given them the fame'turn of verfe which they 
had in the original. Dryden. 
CLO-SENESS, f. The Itate of being flmt ; or, the qua¬ 
lity of admitting to be flint without inlet or outlet.—In 
drums, the clofenefs. round about that ore fie rye th the found, 
inaketh the noife come forth of the drum-hole more loud 
than if you fliould ftrike upon the like (kin extended in 
the open air. Bacon. —Narrownefs ; flraitnefs ; want of air, 
or ventilation.—I took my leave, being half-ftifled by the 
clofenefs of the room. Swift —Compaftnels ; fblidity.— 
The hafte of the fpirit to put forth and the clofenefs of 
the bark, caufe prickles in boughs. Bacon. —Reclufenefs ; 
folitude ; retirement: 
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated 
ro clofenefs, and the bettering of my mind. Shakefpeare . 
Secrecy; privacy.—To his confederates lie was con Hunt, 
and jult, but not open. Such was. liis enquiry, and fuch 
his clofenefs, as they flood in the light towards him, and 
lie flood in the dark towards them. Bacon. —-Covetoulhefs; 
fly avarice—Irus judged, that while he could keep his po¬ 
verty a fecret, he fhould not feel it: he improved this 
thought into an affedation of clofenefs and covetoufiiefs. 
Addifon .—Conne£lion; dependance.—The aflions and pr< - 
ceedings of wife men run in greater clofenefs and cohe¬ 
rence with one another, than thus to drive at a cafual ilfue, 
brought under no forecalt ordelign. South. 
CLO'SER , f. Afinifher; a concluder. 
CLC'SESTOOL,/. A chamber implement: 
A peflle for his truncheon led the van ; 
And his high helmet was a clofe-Jtool pan. Garth. 
CLO'SET, f. A fmall room of privacy and retirement. 
—He would make a itep into his clofet, and after a fiiorc 
prayer he was gone. Wotton. —A private repository of cu» 
riofities and valuable things : 
He furnithes her clofet firfl, and fills 
The crowded (helves with rarities of fliells. Dryden . 
To CLO'SET, v. a. To fliut up, or conceal, in a clo¬ 
fet; to take into.a clofet for a fecret interview.—About, 
this time began the project of clbfetipg, where the prin¬ 
cipal gentlemen of the kingdom were privately catechifed 
by his majefiy. Swift. 
CLOSH ,f. A diftempe’r in the feet of cattle; called alfo 
the founder . 
CLOSH, an unlawful game, forbidden by flat, 17 E;d'w. 
IV. c. 3. and 33 Hen, VIII. c. 9. If is laid to have been the 
fame with our ninepins ; and is called cloficayles , by flat. 
33 Hen.. VIII. c. 9. At this time if is allowed,and called 
hades, or fkittles. 
CLOS'LER CAMP, a place in the archbifhopric ofCo- 
logn, near Rhinberg, where the Hanoverians were worded 
by the French in the year 1760. 
CLOS'TER NEUBURG, a town of Germany, in the 
archduchy of Austria ; eleven miles' north-north-yyefl of 
''Vienna. 
CLOS'TER SEVEN, a town of Germany, in th> circle 
of Lower Saxony, and duchy of Bremen, memorable for 
a convention entered into between the duke of Cumber¬ 
land and the duke ol Richlieu, commander of the French 
armies 
