v
(transitive) To imprison.
v
(transitive) To determine the boundary or limit of; define.
v
To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.
adj
(in combination, by extension) Enclosed by a boundary or boundaries of a specified kind.
n
Alternative form of bourne (“destination; limit”) [(countable, archaic) A boundary; a limit.]
n
(countable, archaic) A boundary; a limit.
v
To enclose an area and separate it from a larger area by surrounding it in walls.
n
(now rare, chiefly Yorkshire) An enclosed field.
v
(transitive) To surround someone, as to impede their movement.
v
(transitive) To enclose, lock up inside something.
v
To seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter.
n
A short distance between a weapon and a target.
n
(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
v
(transitive) To restrict (someone or something) to a particular scope or area; to keep in or within certain bounds.
v
(idiomatic, by extension) To have exclusive possession; to possess something to a high or excessive degree.
v
(intransitive) To give rise to, or to undergo, eclosion.
v
(obsolete) To encircle or embrace.
v
(archaic, transitive) To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison.
v
(obsolete) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
v
(archaic, transitive, intransitive) To bend like a bow; to curve.
n
(figuratively) An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something.
adj
Contained; held within a container.
v
Obsolete form of include. [To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.]
v
(transitive) To confine in a coop.
v
(transitive, poetic) To bring into league.
n
(obsolete) A passage between two rooms.
v
(transitive): To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.
v
To surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement.
v
(transitive) To isolate from external influences or prevent escape from.
adj
(of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
v
(obsolete) To enclose in limits; to shut in.
v
(transitive) To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
v
To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
adj
Contained within something.
v
(obsolete) To enclose, confine.
v
(transitive) To coop in; inclose.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To confine or enclose as with a hoop or hoops; coop up.
v
To confine, as in a prison.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To shut in; to enclose.
v
to confine (people) to a closed area in an emergency situation
v
To surround, accompany, or attend.
v
(archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.
v
(transitive) To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
n
(architecture) Alternative form of parclose [A partition that closes off part of a building; especially one that separates an altar or chapel from the rest of a church.]
n
(obsolete) An enclosed area, especially one separated from the main body of a building by a screen or partition.
v
To enclose (animals) in a pen
v
(transitive or reflexive) To close off, to confine.
v
(obsolete) to shut within a sconce; to imprison.
v
to completely seal, enclose with a seal
n
A door or cover; a shutter.
v
(transitive) To completely surround or enclose.
n
Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.
v
(transitive, obsolete or dialectal, Devon) To close, to shut; to enclose, to hedge or fence in.
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