In*clo"sure (?; 135), n. [See Inclose, Enclosure.] [Written also enclosure.]

1.

The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common ground by a fence.

2.

That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing contained; a space inclosed or fenced up.

Within the inclosure there was a great store of houses. Hakluyt.

3.

That which incloses; a barrier or fence.

Breaking our inclosures every morn. W. Browne.

 

© Webster 1913.

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