INCLOSE

insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce

(verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing; “Insert your ticket here”

enclose, close in, inclose, shut in

(verb) surround completely; “Darkness enclosed him”; “They closed in the porch with a fence”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

inclose (third-person singular simple present incloses, present participle inclosing, simple past and past participle inclosed)

(now, uncommon) Alternative form of enclose

Anagrams

• cineols, close in, colines

Source: Wiktionary


In*close", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inclosed; p. pr. & vb. n. Inclosing.] Etym: [See Enclose, and cf. Include.] [Written also enclose.]

1. To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a town with walls. How many evils have inclosed me round! Milton.

2. To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold (a thing) within another or into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note. The inclosed copies of the treaty. Sir W. Temple.

3. To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands. Blackstone.

4. To put into harness; to harness. [Obs.] They went to coach and their horse inclose. Chapman.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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12 May 2025

UNSEASONED

(adjective) not tried or tested by experience; “unseasoned artillery volunteers”; “still untested in battle”; “an illustrator untried in mural painting”; “a young hand at plowing”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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