Word Meanings - INCLOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. 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! Milton. 2. To put within a case,

Additional info about word: INCLOSE

Etym: 1. 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! Milton. 2. To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold within another or into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note. The inclosed copies of the treaty. Sir W. Temple. 3. To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands. Blackstone. 4. To put into harness; to harness. They went to coach and their horse inclose. Chapman.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCLOSE)

• Contain
• Hold
• include
• comprise
• embrace
• comprehend
• inclose
• Fold
• Double
• enfold
• envelop
• wrap
• Incase
• Inclose
• enshrine
• impanel
• board
• batten

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INCLOSE)

• Exclude
• except
• discard
• bar
• omit
• reject

Related words: (words related to INCLOSE)

• IMPANELMENT
  The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• INCASEMENT
  1. The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased. 2. That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• BATTENING
  Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
• ENSHRINE
  To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.
• DOUBLEHEARTED
  Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• DOUBLE-BARRELED; DOUBLE-BARRELLED
  Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.
• EXCEPTANT
  Making exception.
• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• WEATHERBOARDING
  The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• CHESSBOARD
  The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard. Note: The chessboard and the checkerboard are alike.
• UNCOMPREHEND
  To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• ABOARD
  On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car. 2. Alongside; as, close aboard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• WASHBOARD
  A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which