Inclosure \In*clo"sure\ (?; 135), n. [See Inclose,
   Enclosure.] [Written also enclosure.]
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   1. The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut
      up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common
      ground by a fence.
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   2. That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing
      contained; a space inclosed or fenced up.
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            Within the inclosure there was a great store of
            houses.                               --Hakluyt.
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   3. That which incloses; a barrier or fence.
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            Breaking our inclosures every morn.   --W. Browne.
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	Enclosure \En*clo"sure\ (?; 135), n.
   Inclosure. See Inclosure.
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   Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written
         indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or
         inclosure.
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	enclosure
    n 1: a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed
         for some purpose
    2: the act of enclosing something inside something else [syn:
       enclosure, enclosing, envelopment, inclosure]
    3: a naturally enclosed space [syn: enclosure, natural
       enclosure]
    4: something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in
       an envelope with a covering letter [syn: enclosure,
       inclosure]

	

	139 Moby Thesaurus words for "enclosure":
   abatis, advanced work, arena, bailey, balistraria, bank, banquette,
   barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barnyard, barricade, barrier,
   bartizan, barton, bastion, battlement, boundary, box, breastwork,
   bulwark, cage, casemate, cheval-de-frise, cincture, circling,
   circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture, circumflexion,
   circumjacence, circumposition, circumvallation, close, compound,
   confine, container, containment, contravallation, coop, corral,
   cote, counterscarp, court, courtyard, crib, croft, curtain,
   curtilage, delimited field, demibastion, dike, dog pound,
   drawbridge, earthwork, embracement, encincture, encirclement,
   enclave, encompassment, enfoldment, entanglement, envelopment,
   environment, escarp, escarpment, farmyard, fence, field, fieldwork,
   fold, fortalice, fortification, girding, girdling, glacis, ground,
   hedge, hell, hutch, inclusion, involvement, kraal, limbo, list,
   loophole, lunette, machicolation, manger, mantelet, merlon, mound,
   outwork, paddock, pale, paling, palisade, parados, parapet, park,
   pasture, pen, penfold, pigpen, pigsty, pinfold,
   place of confinement, polygon, portcullis, postern gate, pound,
   purgatory, quad, quadrangle, rail, railing, rampart, ravelin,
   redan, redoubt, rink, run, runway, sally port, scarp, sconce,
   square, stall, stockade, stockyard, sty, surrounding, tenaille,
   theater, toft, vallation, vallum, wall, work, yard

	

	ENCLOSURE. An artificial fence put around one's estate. Vide Close.