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To rive; to cleave. [Obs.]

To invest or adorn with a robe; to attire.

A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

To insert in a roil; to register or enter in a list or catalogue or on rolls of court; hence, to record; to insert in records; to leave in writing; as, to enroll men for service; to enroll a decree or a law; also, reflexively, to enlist. An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and…

One who enrolls or registers.

The act of enrolling; registration. Holland.

To fix by the root; to fix fast; to implant deep. Shak.

To surround. [Obs.] Shak.

Entity, being, or existence; an actually existing being; also, God, as the Being of Beings.

To make safe. [Obs.] Hall.

An example; a pattern or model for imitation. [Obs.] Tyndale. Being ensamples to the flock.

To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue. "The ensanguined field." Milton.

Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.

To cover with scales.

To insert in a schedule. See Schedule. [R.] Shak.

ith a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal. She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras. Shak.

To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify. [Obs.] This deed I do enseal. Piers Plowman.

To sew up; to inclose by a seam; hence, to include; to contain. Camden.

To sear; to dry up. [Obs.] Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb. Shak.

To make search; to try to find something. [Obs.] -- v. t.