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

By fusion, so as to form an air-tight closure.

smodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough. [Written also hickup or hiccup.]…

A pen, house, or inclosure, for hogs.

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

the hush of night." Byron. Hush money, money paid to secure silence, or to prevent the disclosure of facts. Swift.

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

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

pression of the air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in t…

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]

A camp, esp. one with an inclosure of travelers' wagons for temporary defense. [South Africa]

Any intricate or involved inclosure; especially, an ornamental maze or inclosure in a park or garden.

aper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.

A spasmodic state of the glottis, giving rise to contraction or closure of the opening.