v. [UP- 4.] trans. and intr. To close up, in various senses.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., I. 921. Good is … With affadille vp close her holis alle.
c. 1590. J. Stewart, Poems (S.T.S.), II. 63/235. The ring scho did vpclois In till hir mouth.
1603. Bp. Hall, Kings Proph., xiii. Eliza dyde, and with the closing yeare Her dayes vpclosde.
1868. Arnold, Lines Kensington Gardens, ix. The flowers upclose, the birds are fed.
1898. T. Hardy, Wessex Poems, 173. Now that my page upcloses,… Never to press thy cosy cushions more.
