See Also: CLOSE ROLLS, or close writs, Eng(law)
Buy on close(finance)
close-run(dictionary)
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close noun1. ME.
[Old & mod. French clos from Latin clausum closed place, enclosure, use as noun of neut. pa. pple of claudere CLOSE verb.]
I.
gen. An enclosed place, an enclosure. ME.
break a close, break a person's close Law trespass on another's land.
Tennyson I lay Pent in a roofless close of ragged stones.
a. An enclosure about or beside a building. Long obsolete in gen. sense. ME.
b. spec. The precinct of a cathedral. Formerly also, the precinct of any sacred place, a cloister. LME.
c. A farmyard. Now dial. LME.
a. A field, an enclosed piece of land. Now dial. & Law. LME.
b. A playing field at certain English public schools. L19.
H. Newbolt There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night, Ten to make and the match to win!
An entry, a passage, an alleyway. Chiefly Scot., an entry from a street to a common stairway or a court at the back of a building; also, a common stairway or court with such an entry. LME.
A (usu. short) street closed at one end, a cul-de-sac. Freq. in proper names. E18.
II.
An enclosing line, a circuit, a boundary. ME-M17.