Word Meanings - CLOSE-BARRED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Firmly barred or closed.

Related words: (words related to CLOSE-BARRED)

• BARRAS
  A resin, called also galipot.
• BARRAMUNDI
  A remarkable Australian fresh-water ganoid fish of the genus Ceratodus. An Australian river fish .
• BARROOM
  A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• BARRELED; BARRELLED
  Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.
• BARRED OWL
  A large American owl ; -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• BARRINGOUT
  The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools. Swift.
• BARRIO
  In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs.
• BARRIER
  A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy. 2. A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach. 3. pl.
• BARRENLY
  Unfruitfully; unproductively.
• BARRICADER
  One who constructs barricades.
• BARRACK
  A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches
• BARRATROUS
  Tainter with, or constituting, barratry. -- Bar"ra*trous*ly, adv. Kent.
• CLOSEN
  To make close.
• CLOSER
  The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes
• BARRENWORT
  An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family , having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
• BARRATOR
  One guilty of barratry.
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• CYCLOSTYLAR
  Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within. Weale.
• ENCLOSURE
  Inclosure. See Inclosure. Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• DEBARRASS
  To disembarrass; to relieve.
• CYCLOSIS
  The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.