v. [f. EN-, IN- + WALL.] trans. a. To enclose within a wall; also transf. and fig. b. To serve as a wall to.
1523. Skelton, Garl. Laurel (Dyce), 569. A felde … Enwallyd aboute with the stony flint.
1580. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. lxxviii. Heaped waves an uncouth way enwall.
1596. Spenser, State Irel., Wks. (1862), 543/2. They would bee able with little to in-wall themselves strongly.
1601. Daniel, Epistles, Wks. (1717), 356. In-wall’d within a living Tomb.
1627. Speed, England, xxxiv. § 8. The close [was] inwalled by Bishop Langton.
1864. [see EN- pref.1 1 a].
1879. Cornh. Mag., Jan., 43. London was inwalled in the year 306 A.D.
Hence Enwalling ppl. a.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, I. III. xxxi. And strong Pantheotheus inwalling might.
