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earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.

An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.

State of being contained; inclosure. [Obs.] In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones. Bacon.

ng anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.

The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also body of the place.

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

An inclosure about a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.

ts. -- Ring fence, a fence which encircles a large area, or a whole estate, within one inclosure. -- Worm fence, a zigzag fence composed of rails crossing one another at their ends; -- called also snake fence, or Virginia rail fence. -- To be on the fence, to be undecided or uncommitted in respect to two opposing pa…

To aggregate of the fences put up for inclosure or protection; as, the fencing of a farm.

An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.

The keepig of sheep in inclosures on arable land, etc. Folding boat, a portable boat made by stretching canvas, etc., over jointed framework, used in campaigning, and by tourists, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Folding chairFolding door, one of two or more doors filling a single and hung upon hinges.

etween two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged; -- said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, etc. -- n.

A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure. [Obs.] Sir J. Wynne.

A law or ruling prohibiting proper or free debate, as in closure. [Colloq. or Cant]

e hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure. -- Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing. -- Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open. -- Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein. -…

e one's self away, to make an inconsiderate surrender of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's purposes, or the like. [Colloq.] -- To give out. (a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare. One that gives out himself Prince Florizel. Shak. Give out you are of Epidamnum. Shak.…

nce, which forms on the surface of certain mineral waters, or covers the sides of their inclosures; -- called also baregin.

A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.

A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

Development; disclosure; discovery. Shak.