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microcosmic salt is a triple salt. -- Triple star (Astron.), a system of three stars in close proximity. -- Triple time (Mus.), that time in which each measure is divided into three equal parts. -- Triple valve, in an automatic air brake for railroad cars, the valve under each car, by means of which the brake is co…

ins; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience. She never took the trouble to close them. Bryant.

To bind or pack close; to make into a truss. Shak. It [his hood] was trussed up in his wallet. Chaucer.

Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, object of imitation, or the like. Plows, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork. Mortimer.

bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.

by miners. Tub fast, an old mode of treatment for the venereal disease, by sweating in a close place, or tub, and fasting. [Obs.] Shak. -- Tub wheel, a horizontal water wheel, usually in the form of a short cylinder, to the circumference of which spiral vanes or floats, placed radially, are attached, turned by the im…

To inclose; to put within; to press into a close place; as, to tuck a child into a bed; to tuck a book under one's arm, or into a pocket.

A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons.

A kind of warm cap winter wear, made from a knit bag with closed tapered ends by pushing one end within the other, thus making a conical cap of double thickness.

A group of races or tribes inhabiting Asia and closely related to the Mongols.

Disturbed; confused; disordered. " Such turbid intervals that use to attend close prisoners." Howell.

A person or thing that closely resembles another.

Closely resembling; being a counterpart. -- Twin"like`ness, n.

A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like.

To shut; to close. [Obs.] Wyclif.

l, and short oo, as in wood, answering to the French ou in tour. Etymologically U is most closely related to o, y (vowel), w, and v; as in two, duet, dyad, twice; top, tuft; sop, sup; auspice, aviary. See V, also O and Y. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 130-144.

rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol. Underneath the umbrella's oily shed. Gay.

Not closed; not sealed; open. Byron.

To open, as something closely shut. "Unclutch his griping hand." Dr. H. More.

To follow closely or immediately after. [Obs.] Wyclif.