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Definition of Enmeshes
1. enmesh [v] - See also: enmesh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enmeshes
Literary usage of Enmeshes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"The regular measure of the old ballads seems to have been originally four-stress
throughout, as in the " M, O, A, I," stanza which enmeshes Malvolio, II, v, ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1873)
"... and thus impeded in its movements, the metaphor used to describe its state is
one suggesting the freedom and rapid motion of that which enmeshes it. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"The drift-net, which may be likened to a moving trammel, drives through the water
ahead of the smacks and enmeshes every herring, mackerel, or pilchard that ..."
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