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Throng :: Throng (v. t.) To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street..

Confessional :: Confessional (n.) The recess, seat, or inclosed place, where a priest sits to hear confessions; often a small structure furnished with a seat for the priest and with a window or aperture so that the penitent who is outside may whisper into the priest's ear without being seen by him or heard by others..

Bottle :: Bottle (v. t.) To put into bottles; to inclose in, or as in, a bottle or bottles; to keep or restrain as in a bottle; as, to bottle wine or porter; to bottle up one's wrath..

Catarrhine :: Catarrhine (n.) One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey..

Lute :: Lute (v. t.) To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint..

Cohesion :: Cohesion (n.) The act or state of sticking together; close union.

Intimate :: Intimate (a.) Near; close; direct; thorough; complete.

Buckle :: Buckle (v. i.) To enter upon some labor or contest; to join in close fight; to struggle; to contend.

Shave :: Shave (v. t.) The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave..

Cabinet :: Cabinet (n.) A small room, or retired apartment; a closet..

Haw :: Haw (n.) A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.

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

Gasometer :: Gasometer (n.) An apparatus for holding and measuring of gas; in gas works, a huge iron cylinder closed at one end and having the other end immersed in water, in which it is made to rise or fall, according to the volume of gas it contains, or the pressure required..

Close-fights :: Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters..

Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..

Headpiece :: Headpiece (n.) A cap of defense; especially, an open one, as distinguished from the closed helmet of the Middle Ages..

Caryopsis :: Caryopsis (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc..

Occluse :: Occluse (a.) Shut; closed.

Cupboard :: Cupboard (n.) A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet..

Pericardium :: Pericardium (n.) The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.

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