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To close eyes of; to seel; -- said in reference to a hawk. [Obs.]

With child; pregnant. See Enceinte. [Obs.]

The whole; all the parts taken together.

To shelter. [Obs.]

To defend, as with a shield; to shield. [Archaic] Shak.

To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.

To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud. Churchill.

Bearing a sword.

Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf. Ensiform cartilage, and Ensiform process. (Anat.) See Xiphisternum.

sions of the army, rank of naval officers, or private signals, and the like. Hang up your ensigns, let your drums be still. Shak.

The rank or office of an ensign.

The state or rank of an ensign.

reserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage. -- En"si*list (#), n.

To place in the sky or in heaven. [R.] "A thing enskied and sainted." Shak.

To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence. The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.

State of being enslaved.

The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.

One who enslaves. Swift.

To catch in a snare. See Insnare.