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In a close manner.

Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.

To make close. [R.]

The state of being close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison.

One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot.

Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.

A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy. A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine. Goldsmith. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Matt. vi. 6.

A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis. Crabb.

The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.

See Caboose.

A small, rounded, marine organism, capable of braking up into coccoliths.

An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

Hollow-seeded; having the ventral face of the seedlike carpels incurved at the ends, as in coriander seed.

The common soft tissue which unites the polyps of a compound hydroid. See Hydroidea.

Cognizance. [R.] Dr. H. More.

A conoisseur. Mason.

The quality of being cognoscible. Cudworth.

Capable of being known. "Matters intelligible and cognoscible." Sir M. Hale.

Having the power of knowing. [Obs.] "An innate cognoscitive power." Cudworth.