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That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure. "Within the cincture of one wall." Bacon.

Having or wearing a cincture or gridle.

To encompass with a wall. Shak.

The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased. Weale.

See Chiaroscuro.

The act of shutting up or confining; confinement. [R.] Geddes.

A climate. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.

See Closure, 5.

An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.

A fellow adventurer.

Perfectly safe. [Obs.] We steal as in a castle, cocksure: . . . we walk invisible. Shak.

A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair. Addison.

The process of straining; the matter strained; a strainer. [R.]

Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.

f them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90º from the former, and is called the solstitial colure. Thrice the equinoctial line He circled; four times crossed the car of night From pole to pole, traversing each colu…

See Comfit, n.

To be commensurate with; to equal. Tennyson.

A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture.

tate of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound. In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy. Bacon.