The Collaborative International Dictionary
Close \Close\, v. i.
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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. To end, terminate, or come to a period; as, the debate closed at six o'clock.
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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.
To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed.
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To make an agreement with.
To close with the land (Naut.), to approach the land.
Usage examples of "to close on".
The doors were going to close on this thing any minute, and Bill would be trapped on the way to Deathworld 69, never to return!
Those talons now flexed as if ready to close on prey and as it was fast overtaking him, a third cry sounded almost in his ears.