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To close with the land

Close \Close\, v. i.

  1. To come together; to unite or coalesce, as the parts of a wound, or parts separated.

    What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
    --Byron.

  2. To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.

  3. To grapple; to engage in hand-to-hand fight. They boldly closed in a hand-to-hand contest. --Prescott. To close on or To close upon, to come to a mutual agreement; to agree on or join in. ``Would induce France and Holland to close upon some measures between them to our disadvantage.'' --Sir W. Temple. To close with.

    1. To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed.

    2. To make an agreement with.

      To close with the land (Naut.), to approach the land.