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A Jewish or heathen temple. [Obs.] Acts xix. 37.

France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage." Sir W. Temple. -- To close with. (a) To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. (b) To make an agreement with. -- To close with the land (Naut.), to approach the land.

n groups; to gather or unite in a cluster or clusters. His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's. Tennyson. The princes of the country clustering together. Foxe.

ll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple.

Having columns; as, columnated temples.

lace or quality to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it." Sir W. Temple. -- To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my mother came." Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. "This comes of judging by the eye." L'Estrange. -- To come off. (a) To depart or pass off from.…

greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson.

iding into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. [Obs.] Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.

ompellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else but father. Sir W. Temple.

To write; to compose. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

d by with. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.

es met of emryrean heaven, And of this world. Milton. On the confines of the city and the Temple. Macaulay.

ould grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad. Sir W. Temple.

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

tately dance, now out of fashion. It is harder to dance a corant well, than a jig. Sir W. temple. Dancing a coranto with him upon the heath. Macaulay.

used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. -- The court of the Lord, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. -- General Court, the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judical power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.]…

The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.

Pertaining to the temple; temporal.

nto a hard crust; to become incrusted. The place that was burnt . . . crusted and healed. Temple.

uch in England either to feeding or dairy; and this advanced the trade of English butter. Temple.