1. (v. i.) To enclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.

2. (v. i.) To shut out, as with a railing or with latticework; to exclude.

3. (v. i.) To cross and deface, as the lines of a writing, or as a word or figure; to mark out by a cross line; to blot out or obliterate.

4. (v. i.) To annul or destroy; to revoke or recall.

5. (v. i.) To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type.

6. (n.) An enclosure; a boundary; a limit.

7. (n.) The suppression or striking out of matter in type, or of a printed page or pages.

8. (n.) The part thus suppressed.

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