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One who discloses.

See Disinclose.

To free from being inclosed.

To inclose. See Inclose.

A commissioned or noncommissioned officer posted in the rear of a line, or on the flank of a column, of soldiers, to rectify mistakes and insure steadiness and promptness in the ranks.

or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude. The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. Carew. To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. -- To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically cor…

ound; 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.

One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.

To shut in; to inclose. [Obs.]

See Parclose.

A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. [Written also paraclose and perclose.] Hook.

Same as Parclose.

To close again. Pope.

To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes.

Not closed; not sealed; open. Byron.

To keep close or secret. [Obs.] Daniel.

A privy; especially, a privy furnished with a contrivance for introducing a stream of water to cleanse it.

rposes; the sea-ear. Several large species are found on the coast of California, clinging closely to the rocks.

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 aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time. "There fell . . . about three thousand men." Exod. xxii. 28.