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To sail close to the wind. I must edge up on a point of wind. Dryden. To edge away or off (Naut.), to increase the distance gradually from the shore, vessel, or other object. -- To edge down (Naut.), to approach by slow degrees, as when a sailing vessel approaches an object in an oblique direction from the windward.…

ortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.

lectro-chronograph. -- Electric current, a current or stream of electricity traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting substances, or passing by means of conductors from one body to another which is in a different electrical state. -- Electric, or Electrical, eel (Zoöl.), a South American eel-like fresh-water f…

A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti. Irish elk (Paleon.), a large, extinct, Quaternary deer (Cervus giganteus) with wide…

transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition. Tylor.

To bind up; to inclose. Legs . . . embaled in golden buskins. Spenser.

To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars. Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.

ed from preëxisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another. Buffon.

To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something. His house embosomed in the grove. Pope. Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade. Keble.

To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood. [Obs.] In the Arabian woods embossed. Milton.

To inclose, as in a box; to imbox.

To encircle; to encompass; to inclose. Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced. Denham.

To inclose in a brothel. [Obs.] Donne.

The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination. In embryo, in an incipient or undeveloped state; in conception, but not yet executed. "The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo." Swift.

To inclose; to surround. See Impale.

To make a park of; to inclose, as with a fence; to impark. [Obs.]

To inclose; to infold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

te arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.

To inclose as in a case. See Incase. Beau. & Fl.