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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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. (a) To accede to; to consent or agree to; as, to close with the terms proposed. (b) To make an agreement with.
 To close with the land Naut., to approach the land.