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To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

Inclosed; confined. Included stamens (Bot.), such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.

A foreign substance, either liquid or solid, usually of minute size, inclosed in the mass of a mineral.

To inclose, as a field. [R.]

To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Shak. Infold his limbs in bands. Blackmore.

To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop. [R.] Shak.

A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance. Doors and windows,inlets of men and of light. Sir H. Wotton.

To lock in, or inclose.

To inclose, as in a mew or cage. [R.] "Inmew the town below." Beau. & Fl.

To rail in; to inclose or surround, as with rails. Hooker.

Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration. Kissing with inside lip. Shak.

To store up; to inclose; to contain. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To shut in; to inclose. [Obs.]

Lying between walls; inclosed by walls.

To wall in; to inclose. [Obs.] Ford.

Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.

Shut up; inclosed. [R.] Cowper.

To inclose as in a trunk; to incase. [R.] Ford.

To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

To inclose or fortify as with a wall. Spenser.