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rround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; 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.

One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.

To free from being inclosed.

The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.

s alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton.

A space inclosed or reserved at the entrance to the choir, for the clergy and choristers.

The inclosed space on which a building stands.

Of or pertaining to an area; as, areal interstices (the areas or spaces inclosed by the reticulate vessels of leaves).

A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on the wings of insects, circumscribed by the veins.

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

crococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.

A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.

The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court. Holinshed.

form projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.