Meaning of INCLOSE
| Pronunciation: | | in'klowz
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- [v] introduce; "Insert your ticket here"
- [v] surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"
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| | Synonyms: | | enclose, enclose, insert, introduce, put in, shut in, stick in |
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| | See Also: | | bank, border, bower, bury, case, casket, catheterise, catheterize, cordon off, corral, cup, dike, dyke, eat up, embower, encapsulate, encase, engross, enshrine, feed, feed in, fence, fence in, foist, fort, fortify, frame, frame in, glass, glass, glass in, immerse, inject, inoculate, insert, inset, interlard, intersperse, rope in, rope off, shoot, shrine, skirt, slip, surround, swallow, swallow up, tuck, wall in, wall up | |
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| | Definition: | | \In*close"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inclosed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Inclosing}.] [See {Enclose}, and cf. {Include}.]
[Written also {enclose}.]
1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to
include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort
or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls.
How many evils have inclosed me round! --Milton.
2. To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold (a
thing) within another or into the same parcel; as, to
inclose a letter or a bank note.
The inclosed copies of the treaty. --Sir W.
Temple.
3. To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose
lands. --Blackstone.
4. To put into harness; to harness. [Obs.]
They went to coach and their horse inclose.
--Chapman.
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