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To sail away or over. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Embattled. [Obs.]

To imbibe. [Obs.] Skelton.

See Embroude.

= Encenia.

To confine in a cage; to coop up. Shak.

To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton.

To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.…

The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

To canker. [Obs.]

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

To carnalize; to make gross. [R.] "Encarnalize their spirits." Tennyson.

An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [Written also encarpa.]

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

The act of encasing; also, that which encases.

To turn into cash; to cash. Sat. Rev.

The payment in cash of a note, draft, etc.

An ulcer in the eye, upon the cornea, which causes the loss of the humors. Dunglison.

Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.…

To hide in, or as in, a cave or recess. "Do but encave yourself." Shak.