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Inclose v. t. (past & past part. inclosed; pres. part. inclosing) (Written also enclose)

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!"

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."

To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands.

To put into harness; to harness. (Obs.) "They went to coach and their horse inclose."

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Etymology of 'Inclose'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... midst of a semicircle of mountains of whitish rock, the steep and naked sides of which scarce afford "a footing for the goat." Stretching into the Mediterranean they inclose a commodious harbor, in front of which are two or three rocky islands anchored in a sea of more vivid blue than any water I had ever before seen. The country immediately surrounding the city is an arid and dusty valley, intersected here and there with the bed of a brook or torrent, dry during ...

— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant

... well-known symbol for kin, "day" or "sun," we must assume that the value of our Ahau, in this case at least, is li. As another suggestion, I would add that it may have been derived from a figure used in some game. As the figure is usually divided into apartments or cells, most of which inclose a dot, the Maya word lem, lemah, "meter, encajar, poner dentro, introducir" (Perez), would not inappropriately express the idea. Its use as a day symbol would then be simply for its phonetic value. This ...

— Day Symbols of the Maya Year • Cyrus Thomas

... no appreciable action on the fat itself, the proteid layers that inclose the fat particles are dissolved away (Fig. 79), and the fat is set free. By this means the fat is broken up and prepared for a special digestive ...

— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.

... thing to collect distant accounts by means of commercial drafts. A debtor is more likely to meet—that is, to pay—a draft than he is to reply to a letter and inclose his cheque. It is really more convenient, and safer, too, for there is some risk in sending personal cheques through the mail. There are some houses that make all their payments by cheques, while there are others which prefer to have their creditors at a distance draw ...

— Up To Date Business - Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) • Various

... was being constructed, and it divided to semi-inclose a substantial foundation which was the start of the new and commodious express office. The blue sky, smiling down on the busy scene, was no more serene than the prospect which the future seemed to offer for the successful ...

— Bart Stirling's Road to Success - Or; The Young Express Agent • Allen Chapman

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