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To make sure. See Insure.

See Insurer.

The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.

Expanse. [Obs.] "Night's rich expansure."

ion, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or contempt. The exposure of Fuller . . . put an end to the practices of that vile tribe. Macaulay.

erance; representation. [Obs.] An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.

Extension. [R.] Drayton.

A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures (Anat.), the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole wall of the cerebrum. -- Fissure needle (Surg.), a spiral needle for…

A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet.

The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

The dressing of the hair by crisping or curling. Smollett.

Act of fusing; fusion. [R.]

Having or involving a pressure greatly exceeding that of the atmosphere; -- said of steam, air, water, etc., and of steam, air, or hydraulic engines, water wheels, etc.

Immeasurable. [R.] Spenser.

Dent; impression. [Obs.] Shak.

A cut; an incision; a gash. Derham.

laced within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up. Within the inclosure there was a great store of houses. Hakluyt.

A state of not being exposed.

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

One who, or that which, insures; the person or company that contracts to indemnify losses for a premium; an underwriter.