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To inclose, as a field. [R.]

To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Shak. Infold his limbs in bands. Blackmore.

To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop. [R.] Shak.

A passage by which an inclosed place may be entered; a place of ingress; entrance. Doors and windows,inlets of men and of light. Sir H. Wotton.

To lock in, or inclose.

To inclose, as in a mew or cage. [R.] "Inmew the town below." Beau. & Fl.

To rail in; to inclose or surround, as with rails. Hooker.

A small closed receptacle or set of receptacles of hard material, as lacquered wood, iron, bronze, or ivory, used by the Japanese to hold medicines, perfumes, and the like, and carried in the girdle. It is usually secured by a silk cord by which the wearer may grasp it, which cord passes through an ornamental button or…

A following after; close pursuit. [Obs.] Chapman.

nner or condition; so as not to be separable. Bacon. And cleaves through life inseparably close. Cowper.

Being within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration. Kissing with inside lip. Shak.

To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect conduct.

The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation. Spenser. With narrow search, and with inspection deep, Considered every creature. Milton.

to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration. And generous stout courage did inspire. Spenser. But dawning day new comfort hath inspired. Shak.

Closely pressing or impending in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay. Impending death is thine, and instant doom. Prior.

e method. The resemblance between what originally was a habit, and an instinct becomes so close as not to be distinguished. Darwin.

To stop; to close; to make fast; as, to instop the seams. [Obs.] Dryden.

To store up; to inclose; to contain. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Narrowed at the forward end; -- said of an automobile frame when the side members are closer together at the forward end than at the rear.

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.