enclose
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
enclose/ɪnˈkləʊz/
▶verb
- 1 surround or close off on all sides.
■ historical fence in (common land) so as to make it private property.
■ (as adj. enclosed) (of a religious order or other community) secluded from the outside world.
- 2 (enclose something in/within) place an object inside (a container).
- 3 place (something) in an envelope together with a letter.
– origin ME: from OFr. enclos, past part. of enclore, based on L. includere ‘shut in’.
'enclose' also found in these Oxford entries:
angle bracket
- bail
- bind
- bower
- bracket
- brick
- camp
- case
- convolve
- embay
- embower
- encapsulate
- encase
- enclave
- encyst
- ensheath
- envelope
- environ
- fence
- glass
- glaze
- house
- impark
- inclose
- lag
- lock
- magnox
- meninges
- mound
- net
- paddock
- palisade
- parclose
- poach
- rail
- recluse
- ring fence
- septum
- shield
- shrink wrap
- sphere
- stockade
- temporal bone
- turnover
- wall
- wattle
- wrap
