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A close, or inclosure; a croft. [Obs.] Cowell.

Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.

To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner. Just where I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the dusty plain. Fawkes. Tightening pulley (Mach.), a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.

That which tightens; specifically (Mach.), a tightening pulley.

A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer. [Obs.]

In a tight manner; closely; nearly.

The quality or condition of being tight.

Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.

So tight as to be impermeable to air; as, an air-tight cylinder.

So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

As tight as can be made by the hand. Totten.

Hoity-toity.

So tight as to exclude rain as, a rain-tight roof.

Beggar's ticks.

To make less tight or tense; to loosen.

So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.

So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

m the cathead, ready to be let go. -- The anchor is apeak, when the cable is drawn in do tight as to bring to ship directly over it. -- The anchor is atrip, or aweigh, when it is lifted out of the ground. -- The anchor is awash, when it is hove up to the surface of the water. -- At anchor, anchored. -- To back an…

ctoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.