Enlock

v. Also 7–9 inlock. [f. EN-¹ + LOCK v.] trans. To lock up, shut in, enclose, hold fast. Also fig.

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1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. Prol. 4. My soveraigne Queene, In whose chast brest all bountie naturall And treasures of true love enlocked beene.

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1812. Crabbe, Tales, xxi. Wks. 1834, V. 248. He observed … His friend enlock’d within a lady’s arm.

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1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 123. Inlock both Editor and Hofrath, in the labyrinthic tortuosities and covered-ways of said citadel.

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1870. F. W. H. Myers, Poems (1875), 75. Lamps enlock the tomb in golden glamour.

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† b. (See quot.)

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1632. Sherwood, To Inlocke (mortaise in), enclaver.

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