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An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.

The seed of gold; a means of creating gold. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Full of scars. Craig.

A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.

Same as Cirrose.

A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.

Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.

The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.

An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

Closely united.

Firmly barred or closed.

Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.

rriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]

A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.

Closemouthed; silent. "Close-tongued treason." Shak.

Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.

Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.