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, 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, 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:

     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.

   • 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf‎, Macmillan, page 202:

     Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.

Derived terms

• inclosable
• incloser

Anagrams

• cineols, close in, colines