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English Dictionary: 'enclosure by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Inclosure \In*clo"sure\ (?; 135), n. [See {Inclose},
      {Enclosure}.] [Written also {enclosure}.]
      1. The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut
            up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common
            ground by a fence.
  
      2. That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing
            contained; a space inclosed or fenced up.
  
                     Within the inclosure there was a great store of
                     houses.                                             --Hakluyt.
  
      3. That which incloses; a barrier or fence.
  
                     Breaking our inclosures every morn.   --W. Browne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Enclosure \En*clo"sure\ (?; 135), n.
      Inclosure. See {Inclosure}.
  
      Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written
               indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or
               inclosure.
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