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To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.

To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove. "Villages imbosomed soft in trees." Thomson. The Father infinite, By whom in bliss imbosomed sat the Son. Milton.

To inclose in limits; to shut in. [Obs.] Shak.

To inclose in a box.

To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak. This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round. Milton.

To inclose, as with pales or stakes; to surround. Impale him with your weapons round about. Shak. Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire. Milton.

An inclosing by stakes or pales, or the space so inclosed. H. Brooke.

To inclose for a park; to sever from a common; hence, to inclose or shut up. They . . . impark them [the sheep] within hurdles. Holland.

To shut up or inclose, as in a pen. Feltham.

To appropriate; to limit. [Obs.] He would in like manner improper and inclose the sunbeams to comfort the rich and not the poor. Jewel.

To inclose; to take in; to harvest. [Obs.] He that ears my land spares my team and gives me leave to in the crop. Shak.

To inclose. [Obs.] Fairfax.

To inclose completely, as in a membrane.

To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia (Med.), hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.

To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid. Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. Pope.

Confined or inclosed in a castle.

Inclosed in a cave.

Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern. Drayton.

To clasp; to inclose. Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips. Shak.

The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence.