Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-CLIPPED, pp.

Grasped; inclosed.

IN-CLIPPING, ppr.

Grasping; sorrounding.

IN-CLOISTER, v.t. [in and cloister.]

To shut up or confine in a cloister. [But cloister is generally used.]

IN-CLOSE, v.t. [s as z. Fr. enclos; Sp. It. incluso; L. inclusus, includo; in and claudo, or cludo.]

1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; as, to inclose a field with a fence; to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls.
2. To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands.
3. To include; to shut or confine; as, to inclose trinkets in a box.
4. To environ; to encompass.
5. To cover with a wrapper or envelop; to cover under seal; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note.

IN-CLOS-ED, pp.

Surrounded; encompassed; confined on all sides; covered and sealed; fenced.

IN-CLOS-ER, n.

He or that which incloses; one who separates land from common grounds by a fence.

IN-CLO'SURE, n.

1. The act of inclosing.
2. The separation of land from common ground into distinct possessions by a fence.
3. The appropriation of things common. Taylor.
4. State of being inclosed, shut up or encompassed. Roy. whimn
5. A space inclosed or fenced; a space comprehended certain limits.
6. Ground inclosed or separated from common land.
7. That which is inclosed or contained in an envelop, as a paper. Washington.

IN-CLOUD', v.t. [in and cloud.]

To darken; to obscure. Shak.

IN-CLOUD'ED, pp.

Involved in obscurity.

IN-CLOUD'ING, ppr.

Darkening; obscuring.

IN-CLUDE', v.t. [L. includo; in and cludo, to shut up; Fr. enclorre.]

1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. [But in these senses we more commonly use inclose.]
2. To comprise; to comprehend; to contain. The history of England necessarily includes a portion of that of France. The word duty, includes what we owe to God, to our fellow men, and to ourselves; it includes also a tax payable to the government.

IN-CLUD-ED, pp.

Contained; comprehended.

IN-CLUD-ING, ppr.

Containing; comprising.

IN-CLU'SION, n.

s as z. [L. inclusio.] The act of including.

IN-CLU'SIVE, a. [Fr. inclusif.]

1. Inclosing; encircling.
2. Comprehended in the number or sum, from Monday to Saturday inclusive, that is, taking in both Monday and Saturday.

IN-CLU'SIVE-LY, adv.

Comprehending the thing mentioned; as, from Monday to Saturday inclusively.

IN-CO-ACT, or IN-CO-ACTED, a.

Unconstrained.

IN-CO-AGU-LA-BLE, a. [in and coagulable.]

That ran not be coagulated or concreted.

IN-CO-ER'CI-BLE, a. [in and coercible, from coerce.]

Not, to be coerced or compelled; that can not be forced. Bloch.

IN-CO-EX-IST'ENCE, a. [in and coexistence.]

A not existing together. [Not common.] Look.

IN-COG', adv. [contracted from incognito.]

In concealment; in disguise; in a manner not to be known.

IN-COGITANCE, or IN-COGITAN-CY, n. [L. incogitantia; in and cogitoslo, think.]

Want of thought, or want of the power of thinking. Decay of Piety.

IN-COGI-TANT, a.

Not thinking; thoughtless. Afilton.

IN-COGI-TANT-LY, adv.

Without consideration. Boyle.

IN-COG'I-TA-TINE, a. [in and cogitative.]

Not thinking; wanting the power of thought; as, a vegetable is an incogitatine being. Locke.