transitive. To enclose, shut in, confine, or trap (a person or thing). In later use usually with up or in. Also figurative. Cf. bepen v. at be-, p…

transitive. To bar about; to debar.

transitive. To lock up in a room, building, etc.; (also) to lock or shut out. Also figurative.

transitive. To shut in, enclose, surround; to shut up, confine, imprison.

transitive. To enclose, confine; to shut up in an enclosure; to pen.

To enclose with a barrier, hem in.

transitive. To confine by closing the means of egress; to shut in, hem in, enclose.

transitive. To confine within narrow limits; to pen, enclose, shut up; (in later use) esp. to shut up (a ewe and a lamb) together to encourage them…

transitive. To confine, to imprison; to hem in; (also) to shut up; spec. to put (an animal) in a pound, fold, etc.; to impound. Now rare except as…

transitive. To shut up, enclose (a thing or animal) (in a place). Sometimes with up. Also in figurative contexts.

Chiefly with adverb or prepositional phrase as complement. transitive (chiefly in passive). To enclose, hem in; to surround. Frequently with in.

transitive. To put or keep (a person or thing) within bounds or in an enclosed space; to enclose, confine, surround, shut in. Now only in passive…

transitive. To lock up; to place under lock and key. Chiefly figurative. Now rare (Scottish in later use).

To shut up; to keep out. Obsolete.

transitive. To shut up, enclose.

transitive. Alchemy. To enclose or contain within a substance.

transitive. To bay about, embay, hem in, surround.

transferred and figurative. To confine, shut up: in various connections, in which either the confining agent or cause, or the object confined, or…

gen. To close round; to surround, hem in. (Often with some allusion to senses 2 3, as in ‘to be beset by ice.’)

To confine or bound by an environment of any kind; to enclose, shut in, limit, restrain, imprison. Now rarely without adverb complement, most usually…

transitive. To confine or pen (a person or thing) up closely; to pack.

With in, off, up: To enclose, hem in, seclude, shut off (esp. for safety or protection). rare.

To shut up, shut away, or confine in or as in a closet (sense 1). transitive. With up. Later also with away.

transitive. To shut up or confine in an enclosure; to confine within any bounds or limits, material or otherwise; occasionally with up. Also figur…

To shut up apart, to enclose or confine so as to prevent access or influence from without. Const. from. Also, to enclose or confine (a material…

To enclose or retain within limits; to fasten, secure, keep in place.

transitive. To pen or shut in.

To enclose or confine. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To shut up or enclose (livestock) in a pinfold. Also figurative: to confine within narrow limits.

transitive. To set bounds to; to confine.

transitive. To coop up, enclose.

In passive. To be hemmed or shut in; to be enclosed.

transitive. In passive. To be hemmed or shut in. Usually with by, with.

To fasten (up) in any way; also figurative to buckle in: to limit, enclose. Obsolete.

transitive. To set bounds to; to confine, contain, hem in.

transferred and figurative. To envelop or surround as with a wrapping; to enwrap, enfold; †to encircle so as to confine or restrain.

To shut up, confine, restrain. Obsolete. rare.

To confine (a thing) within a containing vessel or narrow limits. Usually with up. Obsolete.

to sheathe up: to envelop so as to confine or obstruct. Obsolete. rare.

To shut up in a close hot place; to stifle, suffocate.

To shut up, enclose (things). Obsolete. rare.

transferred. To enclose or confine.