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unenclosed

a. Not enclosed

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unenclosed
  1. adj. not closed in our surrounded or included; "an unenclosed porch"; "unenclosed common land" [ant: enclosed]

  2. of livestock and domestic poultry; permitted to graze or forage rather than being confined to a feedlot [syn: free-range]

Usage examples of "unenclosed".

Above Wolstaston the ground rises steadily for about a mile and a half till you come to the unenclosed moorland, which stretches away for many miles of open country, covered with heather and gorse.

The servant therefore had to return with them long before I reached the unenclosed mountain land, and I proceeded on my way alone.

They, with other nobles, seized the unenclosed lands of the country and fenced them in for sheep pastures, thus driving into beggary many who had formerly got a good part of their living from these commons.

At the summit there was a level space, sixty or seventy yards square, of unenclosed and broken ground, over which the golden bloom of the gorse cast a rich hue, while its delicious scent perfumed the fresh and nimble air.

San Gotthard Pass, we should descend that nine miles of winding route, and so arrive towards twilight among the clustering homes and upland unenclosed gardens of Realp and Hospenthal and Andermatt.

Simultaneously, on the northern horizon of the arid, unenclosed, and treeless plain swept by the eye around the city, a cloud of dust arises, and a Royal procession is seen nearing.

Such tracts of open country, moors, and unenclosed hills were the haunts of highwaymen till a late period, and memories of the gallows, and of escapes from them, are common.

An unenclosed two-hole privy sat in regal isolation marked by a trail through the high grass and weeds.

When I ascertained that these young trees had not been sown or planted, I was so much surprised at their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single Scotch fir, except the old planted clumps.

House, bare and half finished though it was, situated on an unenclosed piece of barren ground, surrounded by masses of stone, bricks, and other materials used in its construction.

I stood on a very wide, very long unenclosed porch, with a few pieces of cheap furniture.

Reunion and being stalled in someplace sweeping and panoramic and unenclosed and ever-growing.

I carry this idea so far, that an unenclosed, half improven country is to me actually more agreeable, and gives me more pleasure as a prospect, than a country cultivated like a garden.

At the time that the event is said to have taken place the mountain was unenclosed, and there was not much travelling in those days, and consequently the Fairies could, undisturbed, enjoy their dances.

When I ascertained that these young trees had not been sown or planted, I was so much surprised at their numbers that I went to several points of view, whence I could examine hundreds of acres of the unenclosed heath, and literally I could not see a single Scotch fir, except the old planted clumps.