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A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.

Five-spotted. [R.] Shak.

See Chiaroscuro.

Closely united.

Firmly barred or closed.

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

Barriers 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.

Spice clove. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having a coarse grain or texture, as wood; hence, wanting in refinement.

A gripping device, as for stretching wire, etc., consisting of two jaws so attached to a ring that they are closed by pulling on the ring.

One who comes out or withdraws from a religious or other organization; a radical reformer. [Colloq. U. S.]

Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks.

A large hemipterous insect of the family Reduviidæ, often found in houses, esp. in the southern and western United States. It bites severely, and is one of the species called kissing bugs. It is also called big bedbug.

Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.

A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.

A created or high-topped crown or head. "Like the copple-crown the lapwing has." T. Randolph. -- Cop"ple-crowned`, a.

Same as prefix Counter-. [Obs.]

Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Farrow.