inclose

English

Verb

inclose (third-person singular simple present incloses, present participle inclosing, simple past and past participle inclosed)

1. (now uncommon) Alternative form of enclose
   • 1727, John Ray, The wisdom of God manifested in the works of the Creation‎^[1], page 225:

     Vesalius (saith he) and others, make it a Peculiarity to Man, that the Pericardium, or Bag that incloses the Heart, should be fastned to the Diaphragm.

   • 1776, Abbé Resnal, translated by J. Justamond, A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies‎^[2], translation of original in French:

     From the stock, as well as from the branches, rises a jonquil flower, the pistil of which contains the husk which incloses the fruit.

   • 1898, Walter Tennyson Swingle, The grain smuts: how they are caused and how to prevent them‎^[3]:

     The spores of the covered smut are often retained till harvest by a thin membrane inclosing the smutted kernel and chaff, while the naked smut is usually all blown away long before harvest.

Anagrams

• cineols, close in, colines