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Hard-fisted :: Hard-fisted (a.) Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.

Angiosperm :: Angiosperm (n.) A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

Confess :: Confess (v. t.) To disclose or reveal, as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

Weatherly :: Weatherly (a.) Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship..

Fricative :: Fricative (a.) Produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc..

Court :: Court (n.) An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley..

Gang :: Gang (v. i.) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

Compactly :: Compactly (adv.) In a compact manner; with close union of parts; densely; tersely.

Scrutiny :: Scrutiny (n.) Close examination; minute inspection; critical observation.

Scotoscope :: Scotoscope (n.) An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light.

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) A close-fitting garment for men, covering the body from the neck to the waist or a little below. It was worn in Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century..

Wall :: Wall (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall..

Tentorium :: Tentorium (n.) A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

Squat :: Squat (n.) The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground..

Brickyard :: Brickyard (n.) A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place..

Amharic :: Amharic (a.) Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic..

Ovulist :: Ovulist (n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist..

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..

Close :: Close (v. t.) Adjoining; near; either in space; time, or thought; -- often followed by to..

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