Word Meanings - CLOSEBODIED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.

• SETTINGUPEXERCISE
  Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs.
• Closereefed
  Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.
• Close-stool
  A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.
• Setterwort
  The bear's-foot (Helleborus f/tidus); -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots.
• Closeting
  of Closet
• Close-banded
  Closely united.
• Close-tongued
  Closemouthed; silent.
• Settled
  of Settle
• Close-barred
  Firmly barred or closed.
• Settling
  of Settle
• Close-bodied
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.

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