Word Meanings - CLOSEHANDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.

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• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• 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
• CLOSE-FIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
• CLOSEHAULED
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• STINGY
  Stinging; able to sting.
• CLOSE-BODIED
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
• COVETOUSLY
  In a covetous manner.
• CLOSE
  to G. schliessen to shut, and to E. clot, cloister, clavicle, 1. To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door. 2. To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often
• COVETOUS
  1. Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense. Covetous of wisdom and fair virtue. Shak. Covetous death bereaved us all, To aggrandize one funeral. Emerson. 2. Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess
• CLOSET
  1. A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy. A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine. Goldsmith. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet. Matt. vi. 6. 2. A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room,
• COVETOUSNESS
  1. Strong desire. When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad
• CLOSEMOUTHED
  Cautious in speaking; secret; wary; uncommunicative.
• CLOSENESS
  The state of being close. Half stifled by the closeness of the room. Swift. We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus, nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius. Bacon. An affectation of closeness and covetousness. Addison. Syn.
• PENURIOUS
  1. Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton. 2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. C. Pitt. 3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme
• CLOSE-BANDED
  Closely united.
• CLOSEREEFED
  Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.
• CLOSE-BARRED
  Firmly barred or closed.
• CLOSELY
  1. In a close manner. 2. Secretly; privately. That nought she did but wayle, and often steepe Her dainty couch with tears which closely she did weepe. Spenser.
• 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.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• PERCLOSE
  See RALEIGH
• INTERCLOSE
  To shut in; to inclose.
• INCLOSE
  Etym: 1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton. 2. To put within a case,
• PARACLOSE
  See PARCLOSE
• WATER-CLOSET
  A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.