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Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town..

Digester :: Digester (n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them..

Counterpart :: Counterpart (n.) A person who closely resembles another.

Thin :: Thin (adv.) Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin..

Carina :: Carina (n.) That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals, commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification.

Phalanx :: Phalanx (n.) Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union..

Collapse :: Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses..

Disclose :: Disclose (v. t.) To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.

Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

Pack :: Pack (n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

Form :: Form (n.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

Squiggle :: Squiggle (v. i.) To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.

Pack :: Pack (n.) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish..

Home-driven :: Home-driven (a.) Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close..

Ha-ha :: Ha-ha (n.) A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it..

Close :: Close (n.) A double bar marking the end.

P :: P () the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phoenician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M..

Poll :: Poll (n.) The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll..

Cone-in-cone :: Cone-in-cone (a.) 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..

Obturator :: Obturator (n.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate..

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