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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Clos, Clois, Close, adv. Also: closse, cloise. [ME. clos(se, cloos, close, from Clos,a.]
1. Closely, in various senses.?1438 Alex. i. 926.
The duke … laid him deid … And ioynt and clois passit him by a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1323.
Quhen scho the graif saw with a stane clois laid 1513 Doug. iii. iv. 41.
Ontil a caif we went … With treys clos bilappit 1535 Stewart 8499.
Thai … In rayit feild syne passit clois awa 1538 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 87.
That the buithis … be haldin close lokkit 1549 Compl. 40/32.
Hail doune the lufe close aburde c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1371.
Noyis Arke … Of pyne tre maid, … Ioynit full clois with nailes strang a1568 Scott xv. 31.
In oxteris clois we kis 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 44.
He … coverit himself with the cloik of religioun … bot neuir sa closse [etc.] 1603 Philotus xxix.
Ȝour gownes … louse with plets and plyis, Or clasped clois behind 1659-60 Hay Diary 75.
I was also convinced that I walked not closse by aneugh in order to my vowes
2. Completely, clean.1596 Dalr. I. 190/15.
Expelling the Romanes close and clair out of Britannie Ib. II. 415/17.
That ȝour actis be in verie deid cloise contrare thae deidis 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 227.
When we should be close out of love and conceit of any masked and ferded lover a1650 Row 147.
The navie took not the right opportunitie, (forgetting closs, that the Lord of Hosts, … did avowedlie fight aganis him) 1658 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 399.
They sall suffer no stranger beggers to beg, bot to pas throw the towne and sie that they goe clos out
