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

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.

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

Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue. "A colossal stride." Motley.

Colossal. [R.]

The amphitheater of Vespasian in Rome. [Also written Coliseum.]

ic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. Shak.

The first milk secreted after delivery; biestings.

Energy wasted by hysteresis or eddy currents in the core of an armature, transformer, etc.

A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

A mucilagenous secretion of certain birds found as the characteristic ingredient of edible bird's-nests.

Full of heaps.