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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, walled up; guarded on all sides or surrounded as if walled in.
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Logolepsy
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
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Encircled or Surrounded
Words meaning encircled or surrounded.
cinct, engirdled, girdled, girt, circumvallate, obvallate, circled
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reesetee (Obsolete) Walled in. Sep 14, 2007