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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.

e 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.

The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification. The suburbs are not unfrequently larger than their enceinte. S. W. Williams.

To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

To inclose in a chest. Vicars.

To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city. Her brows encircled with his serpent rod. Parnell.

A tract of land or a territory inclosed within another territory of which it is independent. See Exclave. [Recent]

A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).

or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word.

To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world. Shak. A question may be encompassed with difficulty. C. J. Smith. The love of all thy sons encompass thee. Tennyson.…