ensconce (enskons)

t.; pret. and pp. en sconced, ppr. ensconcing. [Formerly also insconce, inskonse; I with small Boates and 200. men would haue gone to the head of the riuer Chawonock, with sufficient guides by land, inskonsing my selfe euery two dayes. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's True Travels, I. 88. I will ensconce me behind the arras. Shak ., M. W. of W., iii. 3. Convey him to the sanctuary of rebels, Nestor i us' house, where our proud brother has Ensconc'd himself. ensemble lare, enseal, Syn my fader, in so heigh a place As parlement, hath hire eschaunge ensealed . Chaucer , Troilus, iv. 559. And than he lete write a letter, and it dide ensele with his seell. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 617. [He]r bul enselyd , concludyng in sentence [Thjat none of al thys ordyr ys neuer like to the. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 84. 2. To seal up; keep secret. Enseled til another day. Chaucer, Troilus, v. 151. enseam1t, inseamt (en-, in-sēm'), v . t. [ en -1, in-1, + seam1.] 1. To seam; sew up. A name engraved in the revestiary of the temple one stole away, and enseamed it in his thigh. Camden . 2. To gather up; include; comprehend. And bounteous Trent, that in him selfe enseames Both thirty sorts of fish and thirty sundry streames. Spenser, F. Q., IV. xi. 35. enseam2+ (en-sēm'), v . t. [ In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 2. To purge from glut and grease: said of a hawk. Also ensame. enseart (en-ser'), v. t. [ Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb. Shak., T. of A., iv. 3. ensearcht (en-sérch'), v. [ enserchen , encerchen, encercher , encerchier (= Pr. en sercar, e ercar), cercher , etc., search: see en -1 and search .] I. trans . To search. Another man per aunter, that wolde peynen him and travaylle his Body for to go in to tho Marches, for to encerche tho Con trees, myghten ben blamed be my Wordes, in rehercynge man ye straunge thinges. Mandeville, Travels, p. 314. He that enserchith the derknes of nyzt, And the myst of the morowtide may se, He schal know bi cristis myzt If zouthe kunne synge reuertere. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 93. II. in trans. To make a search. At whiche tyme as they beganne fyrst to ensearche by reason and by reporte of olde menne there about, what thing had bene the occasion that so good an haven was in so fewe years so sore decayed. Sir T. More , Works, p. 227. ensearcht (en-sèrch'), n. [ I pray you make some good ensearch what my poor neighbours have lost. Sir T. More (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 298). enseelt (en-sel'), v. t. [Also ensile; seel3 .] To close the eyes of; seel, as a hawk. ensegget, v. and n. [ME.] Same as siege . enseintt, a. An obsolete form of enceinte. Black stone. ensemblet (F. pron. on-som'bl), adv. [ME. en semble, In time togeders we haue be ensemble , Where-of of pete my hert doth trimble. Rom , of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3996. ensemble (F. pron. on-som'bl), n. [F., ensem ble , together: see ensemble , adv.] 1. The union of parts in a whole; all the parts of anything taken together, so that each part is considered only in relation to the whole; specifically, the general effect of a work of art, piece of music, drama, etc.-2. In music , the union of all the performers in a concerted composition, as in a chorus with full orchestral accompaniment.3. In math . , a manifold or collection of elements, discrete or continuous, finite, infinite, or super infinite. The elements of the ensemble are usually termed its points. The integrant parts of an ensemble are all the other ensembles whose elements are elements of it. Two ensembles whose elements are ca ture.] To carve; sculpture. [Poetical.] Those shapes distinct That yet survive ensculptured on the walls Of palaces or temples, 'mid the wreck Of famed Perse polis. Words worth, Apology. Nece ary ens, that the non-existence of which involves enseal (en-sel'), r. t. [ pable of being put into a one-to-one correspondence with one another are said to have the same value or to be equivalent. The first value is the smallest infinite value, or that of the ensemble of positive whole numbers. A linear en semble is one whose elements can be brought into corre rived ensemble is one which consists of all the limits of elements in a primitive ensemble. An ensemble is said to be condensed within a certain interval if there are elements of the ensemble in every part of the interval, however small. Disconnected ensembles are ensembles which have no common element. A definite ensemble is an ensemble such that every object is either determined to be an element of it or determined not to be so, and no object is determined in both ways. An ordered ensemble ensemble is one in which the elements have a definite succe ion. A perfect ensemble is one which is its own derived ensemble. See number. First genus of ensembles, that cla of ensembles which have only a finite number of succe ive derived ensembles, since the elements of the nth derived ensemble have no limits. Second genus of ensembles, that cla of ensembles which have an infinite succe ion of derived ensembles. Tout ensemble, the entire combination or collocation; the a emblage of parts or arrangement of details viewed as a whole: as, the tout ensemble of the piece is admirable.