close-bodied
English
Adjective
close-bodied (comparative more close-bodied, superlative most close-bodied)
- Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ayliffe to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for close-bodied in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)