2. Noun. (plural of close) ¹
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Definition of Closes
1. close [v] - See also: close
Lexicographical Neighbors of Closes
Literary usage of Closes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1890)
"M. to reopen; closes also continued rain or dense cloudiness. ... Taraxacum
dens-leonis ; closes at dark to reopen, except in rain; weather, when it may be ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Horace Binney Wallace (1849)
"Trespass for breaking and entering three closes, describing them by ... Plea,
that the said closes in which &c. were the closes, soil, and freehold of one ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by John Leycester Adolphus, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Thomas Flower Ellis (1838)
"jij the closes ; also hindering plaintiff from having the free use, benefit, &C.>
thereon. and enjoyment of the same, in so large, ample, and (jjl"' '2 ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"That century closes with St. Gregory the Great, whose celebrated "Regist rum"exceeds
... Its majestic rhythms and its sonorous closes have invested the Latm ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"Muscularity of the Valve which closes the Foramen Ovale.—Dr. PEACOCK exhibited
to the Pathological Society of London (19th Oct.) a series of preparations ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer: With a by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Charles James Gale (1836)
"To the replication to the first plea, the defendants rejoined, that before the
said Thomas Legh had any thing in the said closes, in which, &c., ..."
7. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1841)
"... 0 sweetly, soundly, weel may he sleep That's laid in the bed beyond thee !
SWEET closes the evening on Craigie-burn-wood, And blithely ..."
8. Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office, Public Record Office, Great Britain (1905)
"... the king granted to him three closes within the forest of ... and he expected
by virtue of the said letters to have at farm all closes within the forest ..."
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