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Strait :: Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

Couple :: Couple (a.) See Couple-close.

Closed :: Closed (imp. & p. p.) of Clos.

Tights :: Tights (n. pl.) Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs..

Disenclose :: Disenclose (v. t.) See Disinclose.

Roof :: Roof (v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter..

Thickset :: Thickset (a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge..

Decahedron :: Decahedron (n.) A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces.

Pale :: Pale (v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off..

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..

Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye..

Cupuliferous :: Cupuliferous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule..

Rye :: Rye (n.) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man..

Close-barred :: Close-barred (a.) Firmly barred or closed.

Squeeze :: Squeeze (v. t.) To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship..

Pome :: Pome (n.) A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear..

Emboitement :: Emboitement (n.) The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another..

Unbury :: Unbury (v. t.) To disinter; to exhume; fig., to disclose..

Serin :: Serin (n.) A European finch (Serinus hortulanus) closely related to the canary.

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