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Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

To grapple; to engange in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. Prescott. To close on or upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. "Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage." Sir W. Temple. -- To close with. (a) To acced…

in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

Tributary; contributing. [R.] It was situated on the Ganges, at the place where this river received a contributary stream. D'Anville (Trans. ).

er directly, by chemically destroying the part, or indirectly by causing inflammation and gangrene. Dunglison.

In an extended sense, any small body of men associated for a purpose; a gang; as (Naut.), the carpenter's crew; the boatswain's crew.

A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. Crosscut saw. (a) A saw, the teeth of which are so set as to adapt it for sawing wood crosswise of the grain rather than lengthwise. (b) A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.…

One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.

The practice of gang robbery in India; robbery committed by dacoits.

A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mississippi.

A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers; as, the doab between the Ganges and the Jumna. [India] Am. Cyc.

An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

n morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.

and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers. Wounds immedicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

sh house, a house frequented by flash people, as thieves and whores; hence, a brothel. "A gang of footpads, reveling with their favorite beauties at a flash house." Macaulay.

A foreman or overseer of a gang of laborers. [Prov. Eng.]

A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.

Relating to Casserio (L. Gasserius), the discover of the Gasserian ganglion. Gasserian ganglion (Anat.), a large ganglion, at the root of the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve.

A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.