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Definition of Tightly fitting
1. Adjective. Fitting snugly. "Tight-fitting clothes"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tightly Fitting
Literary usage of Tightly fitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1864)
"... afterwards placed in an earthenware jar provided with a tightly-fitting lid,
which receives six or eight skeins, weighing from two to four ounce« each. ..."
2. Aero-therapeutics: Or, The Treatment of Lung Diseases by Climate; Being the by Charles Theodore Williams (1894)
"... Disease — Therapeutic Uses of Compressed Air — Methods for Inspiring Compressed
Air through a tightly- fitting Mask ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1895)
"The pipette was held in place in the tube by means of a tightly fitting cork.
A piece of aluminum foil was for about two-thirds of its length cut into in ..."
4. Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum by Walter de Gray Birch (1892)
"In tightly-fitting dress, girdled at the waist, in the rh an ornamental ... [Harl.
ch. 112 I. 55.] Pointed oval. To the r. In tightly-fitting dress, ..."
5. Soups, Savouries, Sweets, with a Chapter on Breads by Practical housewife (1889)
"BRETON. pound them, should they be lumpy; mix them well together; keep the powder
in tightly-fitting tin boxes in a dry place. ..."
6. South African Journal of Science by South African Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"Each end was closed with a tightly-fitting, asbestos-covered cork, through the
centre of which was passed a wire or metal strip (M), so that it lay ..."
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