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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.

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

the 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.…

tance, 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.

A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields. By hedgerow elms and hillocks green. Milton.

A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.

The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. Dryden.

A wall; an inclosure. [Obs.] Shak.

That which hedges in; inclosure. [R.] Milton.

To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping. But taken and impounded as a stray, The king of Scots. Shak.

That which forms a case, covering, or inclosure.

Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.

Situated or occurring within an inclosure; shut off from public sight; private; secluded; retired. I have no Turkish proclivities, and I do not think that, after all, impaling is preferable as a mode of capital punishment to intraparietal hanging. Roll

An inclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants; an elephant trap. [India]

An inclosure into which are driven wild elephants which are to be tamed and educated. [Ceylon]

The citadel of a town or city; especially, the citadel of Moscow, a large inclosure which contains imperial palaces, cathedrals, churches, an arsenal, etc. [Russia]