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Inclosure

Inclosure \In*clo"sure\ (?; 135), n. [See Inclose, Enclosure.] [Written also enclosure.]

  1. The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence.

  2. That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up.

    Within the inclosure there was a great store of houses.
    --Hakluyt.

  3. That which incloses; a barrier or fence.

    Breaking our inclosures every morn.
    --W. Browne.

Wiktionary
inclosure

n. (lb en now uncommon) (alternative spelling of enclosure English)

WordNet
inclosure
  1. n. something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter [syn: enclosure]

  2. the act of enclosing something inside something else [syn: enclosure, enclosing, envelopment]

Usage examples of "inclosure".

They were at the lower end of the inclosure, which was divided almost in two by a broader pathway leading from the house to the centre of the garden, where a fountain of Moorish marble formed a sort of carrefour, from which the narrower pathways diverged in all directions.

But the question now was whether the Boers, who were in the walled inclosure and farm which formed their centre, would manage to escape.

Once they were in the corrals, this could have been easily done by simply opening a gate and allowing blocks of ten to pass alternately from the main into smaller inclosures.

The main inclosure had been built of heavy palisades in an early day, but recently several of smaller sized lumber had been added, making the most complete corrals I had ever seen.

Almost at his feet he saw the mansion-house, the chimney standing out of the middle of the roof, or rather, like a black square hole in it,--the trees almost directly over their stems, the fences as lines, the whole nearly as an architect would draw a ground-plan of the house and the inclosures round it.

Large numbers of the Federal prisoners appeared to be utterly disgusted with Indian corn, and immense piles of corn-bread could be seen in the Stockade and Hospital inclosures.

True, up on the mountain side we had passed by a large inclosure like an ample hog-pen, built of lava blocks, which marks the spot where Cook's flesh was stripped from his bones and burned.

This man, as is already known, was a vagrant who had been found in a field, carrying off a branch, laden with ripe apples, which had been broken from a tree in a neighbouring close called the Pierron inclosure.

First, did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron close, break off the branch, and steal the apples, that is to say, commit the crime of theft, with the addition of breaking into an inclosure?

It is evident that you have stolen ripe apples from the Pierron close, with the addition of breaking into the inclosure.

Spurs or ramifications of high mountains, making down from the Alps, and as it were, reticulating these provinces, give to the vallies the protection of a particular inclosure to each, and the benefit of a general stagnation of the northern winds produced by the whole of them, and thus countervail the advantage of several degrees of latitude.

Did he use the ladders and the scaffoldings of the slaters to get from roof to roof, from inclosure to inclosure, from compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, then the buildings of the Cour Saint Louis, the encircling wall, and from thence to the ruin on the Rue du Roi de Sicile?