close

There is nothinge so close, that shall not be openned, and nothinge so hyd that shall not be knowen.

a close alley; close quarters

[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

If the rooms be low-roofed, or full of windows and doors, the one maketh the air close, … and the other maketh it exceeding unequal.

a close prisoner

He yet kept himself close because of Saul.

a close contest

to cut grass or hair close

The golden globe being put into a press, … the water made itself way through the pores of that very close metal.

close reasoning

Some of these parties have not paid their last payment, because money was close last fall.

Yet were these Florentines as self-retired / In hungry pride and gainful cowardice, / As two close Hebrews in that land inspired, / Paled in and vineyarded from beggar-spies; …

a close translation; a close copy

The patient was kept under close observation.