The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inclose \In*close"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inclosed; p. pr. & vb. n. Inclosing.] [See Enclose, and cf. Include.]
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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!
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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. To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands.
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To put into harness; to harness. [Obs.]
They went to coach and their horse inclose.
--Chapman.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of inclose English)
Usage examples of "inclosing".
Not seeing any signs of game, however, they steered out so as to clear the various little capes or woody points of land inclosing the numerous coves scattered along the indented shore, and struck a line for the great inlet at the head of the lake, which they now soon reached, and commenced rowing against the at first gentle and then rapid current, which here pours down from, the upper lakes, through the rocky and picturesque defiles, in the form of a magnificent river, rivalling in its size the midway portions of the Connecticut or Hudson.
Phillips and Carvil set busily to work in covering, inclosing, and rigging up the camp,—to adopt the woodsman's use of that word, as we notify the critic we shall do, as often as we please, albeit that use, contrary to Noah Webster, indicates the structure in which men lodge in the woods, rather than the place or company encamping.
But all beyond the line of the two points of land inclosing the bay was rolling and tumbling in wild commotion, madly lashing the rocky headlands with the foaming waters, and resounding abroad over the hills with the deep, hoarse roar of the tempest-beaten breakers of the ocean.
I had not realized how thoroughly it does so until I came back from sea and found that Griffiths and some of his friends had persuaded my father to join with them in inclosing Woolcombe Common: he was desperate for money at the time.
Certainly he had an ample fortune, and at sea he lived very quietly, entertaining no more than was,strictly necessary: yet this did not square with his passion for inclosing larger and larger tracts of common land, fens, and open pasture.
On the contrary, Caesar, with an inferior force, was inclosing troops sound and unhurt, and who had abundance of all things.
I have persuaded our cavalry, and they have engaged to execute it, as soon as the two armies have met, to attack Caesar's right wing on the flank, and inclosing their army on the rear, throw them into disorder, and put them to the rout, before we shall throw a weapon against the enemy.
He therefore raised redoubts in proper places, and continued his works quite round the town, inclosing both Ulia and Cassius within his lines.
THE temple was a region of dark, lowering skies and inclosing horizons.
If they fail, however, they push right on regardless, depending on their immensely tough leather breast skin and the almost inclosing bone underneath to protect them.