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Gin
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Beleaguered
of Beleaguer
Blockade
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
Siege
A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
House
A firm, or commercial establishment.
Bolt
To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
Leer
To learn.
Wigwag
To signal by means of a flag waved from side to side according to a code adopted for the purpose.
Imprison
To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
Withdrawn
of Withdraw
Insular
Of or pertaining to an island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.
Seclude
To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with others.
Thresh
To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old stra..
Incarceration
The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
Gin
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
Impound
To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping.
Include
To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.
Enshrine
To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.
Insulation
The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
Siege
Rank; grade; station; estimation.
Seclusion
The act of secluding, or the state of being secluded; separation from society or connection; a withdrawing; privacy; as, to live in seclusion.
Insularity
The state or quality of being an island or consisting of islands; insulation.
Tightness
The quality or condition of being tight.
Outcast
Cast out; degraded.
Barred
of Bar
Winnow
To separate chaff from grain.
Insulate
To make an island of.
Thrash
Alt. of Thresh
Isolate
To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.
Alien
Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
Retired
of Retire
Confinement
Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
Gaol
A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
Cloistered
of Cloister
Restrained
of Restrain
Imprisoned
of Imprison
Penned
of Pen
Immured
of Immure
Incarcerated
of Incarcerate
Parochialism
The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.
Outsider
One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling.
Retirement
The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
Exclusiveness
Quality of being exclusive.
Corral
A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.
Segregation
The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.
Beleaguer
To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
Walled
of Wall
Beacon
A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
Alarm
A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
Buoy
A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
Sift
To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
Unfrequented
Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest.
Kennel
The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle.
Wrap
To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Precursor
One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.
Segregated
of Segregate
Quarantined
of Quarantine
Separated
of Separate
Yard
A rod; a stick; a staff.
Divide
To have a share; to partake.
Recess
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
Privacy
The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.
Divide
To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
Detached
of Detach
Envelopment
The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides.
Sieve
A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair..
Removed
of Remove
Cull
To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
Jail
A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
Cramped
of Cramp
Confined
of Confine
Apart
Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.
Secluded
of Seclude
Isolated
of Isolate
A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
Poke
A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic a..
Signal
A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action...
Kick
To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.
Inclusion
The act of including, or the state of being included; limitation; restriction; as, the lines of inclusion of his policy.
Separate
To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
Detachment
The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.
Out-of-the-way
See under Out, adv.
Segregate
Separate; select.
Cordon
A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordo..
Secrecy
The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy.
Semaphore
A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.
Retreat
The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
Wink
To nod; to sleep; to nap.
Withdrawal
The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.
Separation
The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.
Quarantine
A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.
Flare
To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
Screen
Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.
Balefire
A signal fire; an alarm fire.
Glance
A sudden flash of light or splendor.
Incarcerate
To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.
Remote
Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
Circumscription
An inscription written around anything.
Nudge
To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.
Contain
To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
Blockade
The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
Beset
of Beset
Rocket
A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.
Cage
A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
Touch
To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
Sign
That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.
Isolation
The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness.
Bound
of Bind
Omen
An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.
Enclose
To inclose. See Inclose.
Besiege
To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset.
Symptom
Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond ..
Compass
A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
Division
The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
Coop
A barrel or cask for liquor.
House
A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.
Stable
Firmly established; not easily moved, shaken, or overthrown; fixed; as, a stable government.
Riddle
A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
Nod
To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.
Bolt
A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart.
Mew
A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
Pen
A feather.
Bell
A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.
Encircle
To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.
Surround
To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
Encompass
To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a city; a voyage encompassing the world.
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