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To put into a kennel.

Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.

To excite; to rouse into action; to incite. To enkindle the enthusiasm of an artist. Talfourd.

To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle. Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. P. Fletcher.

The act of enlacing, or state of being enlaced; a surrounding as with a lace.

To cover or dress with lard or grease; to fatten. Shak.

To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke.

Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n.

The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

One that enlarges.

See Inlay.

To lengthen. [Obs.]

Eleven. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To illumine; to enlighten. [R.] Which from the first has shone on ages past, Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. Pope.

To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth. His lightnings enlightened the world. Ps. xcvii. 4.

One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.

Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.

To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [R.] Palsgrave.

To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.

To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.