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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To hold in a clasp; embrace.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To fasten with a clasp.
  2. To clasp; embrace.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To hold in (or as if in) a clasp; to embrace

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To clasp. See inclasp.

Examples

  • “The banks are charmingly wooded with acacias of many varieties, some thorned like the fabled Zakkum, others parachute-shaped, and planted in impenetrable thickets: huge white creepers, snake-shaped, enclasp giant trees, or connect with their cordage the higher boughs, or depend like cables from the lower branches to the ground.”

    First footsteps in East Africa

  • “Fierce rolling round -- his arms enclasp the child -- God help him yet to save!”

    Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two

  • “I swear to you, my girl, that if women warriors were like the woodman's daughter, I would cast away all arms except these with which to enclasp her.”

    The Strong Arm

  • “While the strong arms of Union enclasp them around.”

    Poor Joe

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