Clōs'ūre, n.

noun

(klō'zhūr), n. [O. Fr. closure, Lat. clausura, from claudere, to shut.]

Sense 1. The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink. Boyle.

Sense 2. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed. “Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.” Pope.

Sense 3. That which incloses or confines; an inclosure.

Oh, thou bloody prison, . . . Within the guilty closure of thy walls. Richard the Second here was hacked to death. Shak.

Sense 4. That which ends; a conclusion. Shak.