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ensconce


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ensconce  \En*sconce"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Ensconced};  imp.  & 
  p.  p.  {Ensconcing}.] 
  To  cover  or  shelter,  as  with  a  sconce  or  fort;  to  place  or 
  hide  securely;  to  conceal. 
 
  She  shall  not  see  me:  I  will  ensconce  me  behind  the 
  arras.  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ensconce 
  v  :  fix  firmly;  "He  ensconced  himself  in  the  chair"  [syn:  {settle}] 




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