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Enclosure

Inclosure. See Inclosure.

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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Document 76% connected

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

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Insertion 76% connected

The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings.

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Introduction 76% connected

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

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Intromission 76% connected

The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion.

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Space 76% connected

Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

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Narrower term 21

Boxing 76% connected

of Box

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Cage 76% connected

A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.

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Cavern 76% connected

A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.

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Chamber 76% connected

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

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Compound 76% connected

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

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Coop 76% connected

A barrel or cask for liquor.

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Dock 76% connected

A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.

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Encasement 76% connected

The act of encasing; also, that which encases.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Incasement 76% connected

The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased.

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Lock 76% connected

A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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Matrix 76% connected

The womb.

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Niche 76% connected

A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, lite…

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Packing 76% connected

of Pack

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Pen 76% connected

A feather.

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Pit 76% connected

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

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Plenum 76% connected

That state in which every part of space is supposed to be full of matter; -- opposed to vacuum.

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Pound 76% connected

To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.

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Recess 76% connected

A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

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Vivarium 76% connected

A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.

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Yard 76% connected

A rod; a stick; a staff.

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Derivationally related 4

Envelop 74% connected

To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a…

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Envelop 74% connected

To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a…

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Insert 74% connected

To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…

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Insert 74% connected

To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…

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Synonym 2

Envelopment 92% connected

The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.

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Inclosure 92% connected

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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