Encloses [verb]

It is not nearly so complete as the famous Chester wall, but it encloses a larger area.

A fine garden surrounds the back of the palace, a large court-yard the front, and a high fortified wall encloses the whole.

The grey-brown husk encloses a fibrous, dry, yellow-colored fruit with its kernel.

The edible substance, which is soft and green, encloses a kernel resembling a chestnut in form and color.

Nature encloses them in the innocent indifference that preserves their brains from the more harassing kinds of distress.

Turning on his own axis and using the materials placed to his hand, he encloses himself little by little in his sheath of masonry.

It encloses many large islands, and contains large bays and gulfs which deeply indent the northern shores of the three continents.

Therefore that pyramid is greater than V, the volume of the cone: which is impossible, since the cone encloses the pyramid.

A thin cell-wall encloses the granular protoplasm, in which vacuoles and sometimes a nucleus may be noted.

In Tegenaria domestica he finds that it encloses the so-called yolk-nucleus, p. 62.