Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An inclosure. Capgrave, Chronicle.
  • noun The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.
  • noun In anatomy, the absence of a perforation where it normally occurs; atresia.
  • noun A clasp by which the covers of a book are held together.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of shutting up or confining; confinement.

Etymologies

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From Latin clausūra. See closure.

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