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Pertaining to Hybla, an ancient town of Sicily, famous for its bees.

ude; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton.

rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc.

habitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy.

ace, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state. "Frail inhabitants of earth." Cowper. In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people. Abp. Abbot.

the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. "This wide inland sea." Spenser. From inland regions to the distant main. Cowper.

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

The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn. [Eng.]

graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.

Going between, or connecting, cities or towns; as, interurban electric railways.

To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town.

ercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

f the tribes were agricultural, and they were noted for large, communal houses, palisaded towns, and ability to organize, as well as for skill in war. --n.

To go out; to rush out; to sally forth; as, troops issued from the town, and attacked the besiegers.

ularly a preacher; one who is unsettled. Glad to turn itinerant, To stroll and teach from town to town. Hudibras.

. See Jamestown weed. [Local, U.S.]

ervice; to turn public matters to private advantage. And judges job, and bishops bite the town. Pope.

A season of general joy. The town was all a jubilee of feasts. Dryden.

possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain. If we lose the field, We can not keep the town. Shak. That I may know what keeps me here with you. Dryden. If we would weigh and keep in our minds what we are considering, that would instruct us. Locke.

A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.