being close or near to a border, wall, or point a group of machine parts that fit together to form a tool or machine a substance important for human and animal health, particularly for making bones and teeth the act of closing something a review of the quality of a work a word or action during a stage play to tell an actor to speak to describe someone or something the state of a female being able to produce young not stated directly living or growing naturally in an area, not brought from somewhere else having a path that is not straight or direct to make it difficult for a process to start or continue in a normal way to start a way to put (inject) a drug or another substance into your body very small; on the edge; not important in part; in some degree; not wholly an outline; an imagined sequence of events in a plan or project one an example of something, especially of a plant or an animal; a small amount of blood or urine the way something is used