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To inclose in corsets.

An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Golds…

imal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm. A few small crofts of stone-encumbered ground. Wordsworth.

The area inclosed between two concentric perimeters.

The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.

ants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red. Milton.

The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.

Inclosed in a cyst.

The substances which inclose the ore on every side.

A solid figure or body inclosed by ten plane surfaces. [Written also, less correctly, decaedron.]

A glass vessel or bottle with a large body and small neck, inclosed in wickerwork.

o much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.

See Disinclose.

up a word or words a second time by mistake; to make a doublet. To double upon (Mil.), to inclose between two fires.

A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney. Thackeray. He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in . . . a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for. Dickens.

Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch. Milton. Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell. -- Echo stop (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for producing the soft effect of distant sound. -- To applaud to the echo,…