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Webster 1913 Edition

Immure

Im-mure′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Immured
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Immuring
.]
[Pref.
im-
in +
mure
: cf. F.
emmurer
.]
1.
To wall around; to surround with walls.
[Obs.]
Sandys.
2.
To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
Those tender babes
Whom envy hath
immured
within your walls.
Shakespeare
This huge convex of fire,
Outrageous to devour,
immures
us round.
Milton.

Im-mure′

,
Noun.
A wall; an inclosure.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Immure

IMMU'RE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. in and murus, a wall.]
1.
To inclose within walls; to shut up; to confine; as, to immure nuns in cloisters.
The student immures himself voluntarily.
2.
To wall; to surround with walls.
Lysimachus immured it with a wall. [Not usual.]
3.
To imprison.

IMMU'RE

,
Noun.
A wall. [Not used.]

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