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To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also encage.] "Incaged birds." Shak.

To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility. With due respect my body I inclined. Dryden.

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.

To view and examine officially, as troops, arms, goods offered, work done for the public, etc.; to oversee; to superintend. Sir W. Temple.

nstitute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute.

eeping in the interior of a place or country; to confine to one locality; as, to intern troops which have fled for refuge to a neutral country.

Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

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 go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

An arrangement of lace or tulle, looped ornamentally, and worn by women on the front of the dress.

. (a) (Bot.) A perennial herb of the genus Polemonium (P. coeruleum), having corymbs of drooping flowers, usually blue. Gray. (b) (Naut.) A rope ladder, with wooden steps, for going aloft. R. H. Dana, Jr. (c) (Naut.) A succession of short cracks in a defective spar. -- Jacob's membrane. See Retina. -- Jacob's staff.…

erson, usually in consideration of some service to be rendered, esp. the maintenance of troops. [Written also jaghire, jagir, etc.] [India] Whitworth.

Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. Like a jolly troop of huntsmen. Shak. "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed." Wordsworth.

box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills. [U.S.] J. F. Cooper.

lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.

all wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food. Cooper.

A variety of small pet dogs, having, drooping ears, a high, dome-shaped forehead, pug nose, large, prominent eyes, and long, wavy hair. The color is usually black and tan.

A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.

Whooping cough. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.]

form, as a textile fabric, by the interlacing of yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.