Usually means: Settle securely or comfortably in place.
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  1. ensconce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ensconce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ensconce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ensconce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ensconce: Vocabulary.com
  6. ensconce: Wordnik
  7. ensconce: Wiktionary
  8. ensconce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ensconce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ensconce: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ensconce, ensconce: Dictionary.com
  12. ensconce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. ensconce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ensconce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ensconce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ensconce: Rhymezone
  17. Ensconce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ensconce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. ensconce: Free Dictionary
  20. ensconce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ensconce: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. ensconce: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. Ensconce: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ensconce: Legal dictionary

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  1. ensconce: Idioms

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verb:  (transitive) To place in a secure environment.
verb:  (intransitive) To settle comfortably.

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